AI does, and does not, change the way I do math
This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] The way I do math experienced a great upheaval once before, halfway through my PhD. I was in a seminar with a group of graduate students and faculty developing new discipline-specific writing courses. The facilitator asked the question, What does it mean to write well in your discipline?
- ▪This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] The way I do math experienced a great upheaval once before, halfway through my PhD.
- ▪I was in a seminar with a group of graduate students and faculty developing new discipline-specific writing courses.
- ▪The facilitator asked the question, What does it mean to write well in your discipline?
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| Original publisher | What's new |
| Canonical URL | https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/29/how-ai-does-and-does-not-change-the-way-i-do-math/ |
| Publication time | Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:20:30 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-30T00:37:34.203Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-30T00:37:34.203Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
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| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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[This is a guest post by Rachel Webb. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] The way I do math experienced a great upheaval once before, halfway through my PhD. I was in a seminar with a group of graduate students and faculty developing new discipline-specific writing courses. The facilitator asked the question, What does it mean to write well in your discipline? Then, as now, I use writing as a proxy for doing. As a mid-career grad student, I had a quick answer to this question: good mathematical writing, hence good mathematics, is clear and correct.
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