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by MaxBarraclough 2126 days ago
> fret not, a second computer program can assure us of its validity

Formal methods are rigorous enough and mature enough to be helpful in avionics software development, why not in research mathematics?

> I hope they are not building the foundations of future math on this house of cards.

Mathematics is always a house of cards, and human mathematicians will always be fallible. It's already possible for a published result to later turn out to be invalid, in turn invalidating papers that relied on it.