Abstract
A short text in the hand of David Hilbert, discovered in Göttingen a century after it was written, shows that Hilbert had considered adding a 24th problem to his famous list of mathematical problems of the year 1900. The problem he had in mind was to find criteria for the simplicity of proofs and to develop a general theory of methods of proof in mathematics. In this paper, it is discussed to what extent proof theory has achieved the second of these aims. This article is part of the theme issue 'The notion of 'simple proof' - Hilbert's 24th problem'.
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