A Mathematician Reads the AI Future

Discovery and the joy of discovering ripped apart: KI stürzt mitnichten nur die Sozialwissenschaften in eine Sinnkrise - auch die Mathematik ist betroffen: Mathematische Probleme, die Wissenschaftler angetrieben haben, deren Lösung ihre Arbeit und ihr Erfolgserlebnis war, löst KI in wenigen Stunden.

Pure math, on the other hand, is all about the why. Without the reasoning behind it, mere knowledge of the right answer—to a pure mathematician—feels shallow, frustrating, and incomplete. 🎁 www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

This is a good and thoughtful take on AI that circles towards, I think, the right question: Why are we doing all these things in the first place? 1/? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

„Mathematical truths may exist outside of us, but the search for them has always taken us deep inside ourselves, to find the best that our minds can muster. Until now, discovery and the joy of discovering went hand in hand. Suddenly, AI is ripping them apart.”

@stevenstrogatz.com has written an amazing piece, not just about the impact of AI on mathematics, but also about the bifurcated nature of the subject between theoretical (“pure”) and applied mathematics (and the mathematicians themselves). Read it and weep! www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

Only to the corporations. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

A Mathematician Reads the AI Future - The Atlantic www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1... - OpenAI의 AI 모델이 수백 개의 오랜 수학 난제들을 단숨에 해결하면서, 수학계는 연구자의 존재 가치와 학문의 존립 자체를 위협받는 심각한 실존적 위기에 직면 - 응용수학계는 AI를 현실 문제를 해결할 강력한 도구로 환영하는 반면, 순수수학계는 스스로 증명하고 이해하며 누리던 지적 탐구의 기쁨을 기계에 박탈당했다며 깊은 상실감에 빠져 있음 (🧵1/2)

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Steven Strogatz on the effects of AI on maths www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

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The art leads to the science leads to the utility. 🎁 www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

Mathematical truths may exist outside of us, but the search for them has always taken us deep inside ourselves, to find the best that our minds can muster. Until now, discovery and the joy of discovering went hand in hand. Suddenly, AI is ripping them apart.

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“A Mathematician Reads the AI Future: My field is as much an expression of the human spirit as music and literature. Is it for the machines now?” — Steven Strogatz www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

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A Mathematician Reads the AI Future @theatlantic.com My field is as much an expression of the human spirit as music and literature. Is it for the machines now? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

Steven Strogatz on 2026, the year that AI ate math www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

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A Mathematician Reads the AI Future - The Atlantic www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1... - OpenAI의 AI 모델이 수백 개의 오랜 수학 난제들을 단숨에 해결하면서, 수학계는 연구자의 존재 가치와 학문의 존립 자체를 위협받는 심각한 실존적 위기에 직면 - 응용수학계는 AI를 현실 문제를 해결할 강력한 도구로 환영하는 반면, 순수수학계는 스스로 증명하고 이해하며 누리던 지적 탐구의 기쁨을 기계에 박탈당했다며 깊은 상실감에 빠져 있음 (🧵1/2)

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A mathematician reads the AI future

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A mathematician reads the AI future https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/10/ai-math-human-future/689133/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50233347)

A mathematician asks whether math now belongs to machines after OpenAI claimed its agents solved the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize problem

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"Pure math is all about the why. Without the reasoning behind it, mere knowledge of the right answer—to a pure mathematician—feels shallow, frustrating, and incomplete. " #mathematics #ai https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/10/ai-math-human-future/689133/

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“These were puzzles that had served as beacons in the darkness, calling and challenging and inspiring us for decades. On average, the model took just three hours’ worth of computation to dispose of each of them.”