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Of course the deep concern is that there's a way to elegantly prove the existence of an ugliest possible proof.
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Alright, that makes sense! Thank you for the explanation!
So the third branch mentioned in the comic would be the unpure, inapplicable variant, whereas the first would be theoretical/pure mathematics and the second branch would be applied math?
Yep, exactly!