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by RhysU 3 days ago
> The creation (or even the pursuit) of novel mathematics is one way that humans have historically accessed the ineffable and encountered the divine and mystical.

Would a mathematician please unpack this for me? A theorem is the opposite of ineffable. A conjecture may be ineffable but its pursuit reifies it. I am missing something.

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