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Andre Weil has frequently criticized the use of “conjecture” in mathematics:
Sans cesse le mathématicien se dit: “Ce serait bien beau” (ou: “Ce serait bien commode”) si telle ou telle chose était vrai. Parfois il le vérifie sans trop de pein; d’autres fois il ne tarde pas à se détromper. Si son intuition a résisté quelque temps à ses efforts, il tend à parler de “conjecture”, même si la chose a peu d’importance en soi. Le plus souvent c’est prématuré. [17]
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Bloch, S. (2001). The Proof of the Mordell Conjecture. In: Mathematical Conversations. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0195-0_8
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