"Are there mathematical propositions for which there is a considerable amount of computational evidence, evidence that is so persuasive that a physicist would regard them as experimentally verified?"
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Thoughts on the Riemann hypothesis The Mathematical Intelligencer (December 2004) vol. 26, issue 1, pp. 4–7, quote on p. 4
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