The Future of Mathematics
The meeting was designed to stimulate discussion, and when I introduced myself as a mathematician, many participants were eager to talk about the impact of recent events in AI on mathematics and reactions in the mathematics community. They were surprised to hear that I find the tone of the community responses on blogs like this one and Proofs and Prompts generally positive and encouraging, even though we all recognize that fundamental aspects of our day-to-day professional lives are bound to change. These discussions have helped me shape some of the thoughts I would like to share here.
- ▪The meeting was designed to stimulate discussion, and when I introduced myself as a mathematician, many participants were eager to talk about the impact of recent events in AI on mathematics and reactions in the mathematics community.
- ▪They were surprised to hear that I find the tone of the community responses on blogs like this one and Proofs and Prompts generally positive and encouraging, even though we all recognize that fundamental aspects of our day-to-day profession
- ▪These discussions have helped me shape some of the thoughts I would like to share here.
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| Publication time | Mon, 05 Oct 2026 19:22:40 +0000 |
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[This is a guest post by Jeremy Avigad. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] “Mathematics underwent, in the nineteenth century, a transformation so profound that it is not too much to call it a second birth of the subject—its first birth having occurred among the ancient Greeks…” Howard Stein, in “Logos, Logic, and Logistiké: Some Philosophical Remarks on Nineteenth-Century Transformation of Mathematics” “The report of my death was an exaggeration.” Mark Twain “May you live in interesting times.” (traditional) I recently attended a meeting of innovative science and technology startups supported by Convergent Research, the organization that oversees the Lean FRO, a nonprofit that develops the Lean theorem prover.
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