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- From: hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin)
- Subject: Trivial is not the same as obvious; good research makes things obvious
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- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 15:50:12 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov13.090126.7142@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> leemike@eecg.toronto.edu (Michael Lee) writes:
- >re: zelany's reponse to zach@csdec1.tuwien.ac.at:
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- .................
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- >>From the mathematician's
- >>viewpoint, the proof is trivial: A simple
- >>diagonalization argument (in Kreisel's words).
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- It would be better to state that the proof is obvious, once stated. In
- Landau's book, this occurs after a theorem, and loses nothing in translation:
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- Remark: Not trivial.
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- Proof: Obvious.
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- Research is no more significant if the proofs are obscure and difficult to
- follow.
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