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Or as noted in the article:

> But one of the distinctive things about math is that our papers aren’t just records of experiments we did elsewhere. In experimental sciences, the experiment is the “real work” and the paper is just a description of it. But in math, the paper, itself, is the “real work”.

And

> And that means that you can replicate a math paper by reading it.



I think that means that the word "experiment" isn't the right term for what most mathematicians do.

I'd say most times it's "modeling", not "experimenting"




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