Pursuing mathematics in the age of AI
The last few months have been a turbulent, uncertain time for mathematics. Last month, both OpenAI and Anthropic announced that AI solved some of the most challenging age-old mathematical problems. OpenAI claimed AI solved the Navier–Stokes equations and Anthropic claimed AI formalised Fermat’s Last Theorem.
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Within days of these announcements, commentary around AI overtaking the world’s best mathematicians began flooding the Internet.
On September 11, The Wall Street Journal published an article titled, AI Is Powerful Enough to Crack Our Hardest Math Problems—and Kill Us All. On September 22, Sky News published a YouTube video titled The world’s best mathematicians already overtaken by AI. These days, just reading the news makes it seem like AI
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