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[Jarmsy]

Plenty of mathematics is ugly. Just look at optimal packing. People like to focus on the elegant parts.

[gus_massa → Jarmsy]

A lot of the ugly part of math is hidden inside lemas and theorems, so the main part of the proof can be hopefully straightforward.

Anyway, I agree that people like to focus on the elegant parts. Math popularization materials have too much kawaii math.

[GuB-42 → Jarmsy]

A notorious "ugly" proof is that of the 4-color theorem.

It has been proven using a computer. The problem was first reduced to a few hundred cases, then a brute force algorithm was used to solve each case.