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Perhaps we are in violent agreement.

I don't want to say that doing math is not creative. Far from it. But mathematicians strive to make themselves unemployed. They prove theorems once and for all, so you don't have to for each right triangle why it has this curious properties about the sum of squares.

Eliminating the need for creativity takes a lot of creativity.



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