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On proof and progress in mathematics

. (1994)cite arxiv:math/9404236Comment: 17 pages. Abstract added in migration..

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In response to Jaffe and Quinn math.HO/9307227, the author discusses forms of progress in mathematics that are not captured by formal proofs of theorems, especially in his own work in the theory of foliations and geometrization of 3-manifolds and dynamical systems.

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