Stephen Wolfram Q&A
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May 14, 2012
From: Reddit AMA
If somebody proved P=NP, what do you think your reaction would be?
I’d be surprised!
And then I’d ask just what axiom system (Peano arithmetic, set theory,… ?) was used to do it.
I have a suspicion that P?=NP ultimately isn’t a well-defined decidable question. But hopefully we’ll eventually see.