Probabilistically checkable proofs

Can a proof be checked without reading it? That certainly seems impossible, no matter how much reviewers of mathematical papers may wish for this. But theoretical computer science has shown that we can get very close to this objective! Namely random consistency checks could reveal errors in proofs,...

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Main Author: Sudan, Madhu (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association for Computing Machinery, 2010-03-04T19:32:53Z.
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