#Mathematics in the age of #ai

Will #deepmind #alphaevolve do for mathematics, what #alphafold did for proteomics?

Are LLMs driving Automated Theorem Provers the future of math?

https://youtube.com/watch?v=mS9Lr43cIB4

#fieldsmedal #lecture

#TerenceTao on #GrigoriPerelman solving #PoincareConjecture | Lex Fridman Podcast Clips #yt #math #fieldsmedal

https://youtu.be/aDRGEgqX50M

He Dropped Out to Become a Poet. Now He’s Won a Fields Medal. (2022)

https://www.quantamagazine.org/june-huh-high-school-dropout-wins-the-fields-medal-20220705/

#HackerNews #FieldsMedal #Poet #HighSchoolDropout #MathSuccess #InspirationalStory

Omg y'all, I just realized that since I turned 40 I can't win a #FieldsMedal! Of course almost no one does win one, but the fact that I *can't* is so incredibly freeing. Like it can just be all the way off my radar, nothing to do with me at all. There was essentially zero chance that I would ever do anything significant anyway, but somehow the contest culture still loomed in dark corners of my mind.

Omg I might be able to go back to math someday.

Jean-Pierre Serre (Fields Medal 1954) debunked the 'curse of the Fields Medal' myth: 97% of his papers were published during the 70 years (!) after he won it.

Jean-Pierre Serre exemplifies the importance of inner drive and passion in achieving excellence. His dedication to mathematics, driven by a deep love for the subject rather than a quest for accolades or external awards, is an inspiring reminder that true fulfillment and success come from following one's passions.

For individuals like Jean-Pierre Serre, external awards become secondary to their intrinsic motivation and passion for their work. Their primary satisfaction comes from the pursuit of knowledge and the joy of discovery, making external recognition a mere byproduct rather than the goal.
#JeanPierre #JeanPierreSerre #FieldsMedal #FieldsMedalist #Myth #MythDebunked #Debunked #Mathematics #Math #Maths #Papers #Research #MathResearch

I was very pleased to hear yesterday that this year’s Abel Prize has been awarded to Michel Talagrand. For more about Talagrand and his mathematics, see the Abel site, Quanta, NYT, Nature and elsewhere. Also, see lots of reactions on Twitter.

Almost exactly ten years ago I got an email from someone whose name I didn’t recognize, expressing interest in the notes I had made available online which would turn into the book on quantum mechanics.
He was reading the notes and had some comments which he included, saying he thought they were trivial but maybe I would want to take a look.
Some of them were of the type “I don’t quite understand the argument on page X”.

Figuring that I’d help out an earnest reader with a weak background by explaining the argument a bit better, I took a look at the argument on page X.
After a while I realized that what I had written was nonsense, a very different argument was needed.
“I don’t quite understand” was his way of politely telling me “you have this completely wrong.”

I soon ran into Yannis Karatzas and asked him if he knew anything about this “Michel Talagrand”. He told me “of course! He’s amazing, almost got a Fields Medal”.

Over the next year or two I benefited tremendously from Michel continuing to read carefully through my notes and send me detailed comments.
He was very much responsible for improving a lot the quality and accuracy of what I was writing.

He had begun his own project of trying to understand quantum field theory by writing a book about it.
The result is available as What Is a Quantum Field Theory?, which is a wonderful resource for anyone interested in a precise and accurate account of much of the basics of the subject.

If you’ve seen Gerald Folland’s excellent Quantum Field Theory: A Tourist Guide for Mathematicians, you can think of Talagrand’s book as a much expanded version, giving the full story that Folland only sketched
#peterwoit #MichelTalagrand #FieldsMedal #NotEvenWrong

https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=13877

“La maggior parte delle persone che non hanno ricevuto una formazione scientifica probabilmente pensano che i fisici facciano calcoli incredibilmente complicati. Ma non è questa la vera essenza. L’essenza è che la fisica vuole capire i concetti e i principi con cui funziona il mondo.”

Edward Witten, fisico e matematico.
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#fieldsmedal #edwardwitten #science #mathematics #fisica #elzevirista

#GrigoriPerelman 🇷🇺 proved the #PoincaréConjecture 20 years ago, which was one of the 7 #milleniumproblems in #mathematics. 🧮 He declined a series of awards though, incl. the #FieldsMedal. 🥇

The Poincaré conjecture is "a central problem both in maths and physics because it seeks to understand what the shape of the universe can be," said
Marcus du Sautoy
at
University of Oxford
(In: https://theguardian.com/science/2006/aug/16/russia.highereducation).

#geometrictopology #TopologyRevolution

@univienna

https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000180504/das-mathematische-genie-das-eine-million-dollar-ablehnte