“But 'the physical level of rigor' is higher on certainty than the logical one, since reproducible experiments are more reliable than anybody's, be it Hilbert's, Einstein's or Gödel's intuition.”
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Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov
Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov is a renowned mathematician born on December 23, 1943. He has made significant contributions to the fields of geometry, topology, and partial differential equations. more
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