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Jay Daigle

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Jay Daigle is a professor of mathematics at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. In addition to his research in number theory, he brings a mathematical style to thinking about philosophy, politics, social dynamics, and everyday life.

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Why isn't there a replication crisis in math?

The replication crisis is a major problem in medicine and social science; we know that a huge fraction of the published literature is outright wrong. But in math we don't seem to have a similar crisis, despite reasonably frequent minor errors in published papers. Why not, and what can this tell us about the fields…