As a grad student it is expected you will make an effort to understand the derivation of as much of the foundational results in your sub-field as you can […] It is definitely considered moderately distasteful to cite results you dont understand and good mathematicians do try to minimize it.
Yeah, that seems like a feature of math that violates assumption 2 argument 1. If people are actually constantly checking each others’ work, and never citing anything they don’t understand, that leaves me much more optimistic.
This seems like a rarity. I wonder how this culture developed.
Yeah, that seems like a feature of math that violates
assumption 2argument 1. If people are actually constantly checking each others’ work, and never citing anything they don’t understand, that leaves me much more optimistic.This seems like a rarity. I wonder how this culture developed.