Illustration beyond Proof

·Terry Tao··

[This is a guest post by Kate Stange and Edmund Harriss. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] In January a group of mathematicians, historians, artists and educators gathered at the Institut Henri Poincaré (IHP) for a very unusual workshop on mathematical meaning. Our focus for that week, as part of a special trimester on the use of illustration in mathematical research, was to ask: what would it mean for an illustration to be rigorous [1]...

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