⏚ Antoine Chambert-Loir on Nostr: one thing that might be wrong in the math as chess metaphor is that math goes on, ...

one thing that might be wrong in the math as chess metaphor is that math goes on, whatever theorems mathematicians prove. When a conjecture is proved, new questions emerge, when it is disproved, a quest for better intuitions has to start. And sometimes, mathematicians simply create a new field.