Will AI spark a math renaissance, or make fewer people care about it?
jfischoff · x · 2026-07-23
The post asks what happens to math in an AI-heavy world: whether it experiences a renaissance, or whether fewer people care enough to do or track it because mathematical work no longer carries the same signal of genius.
It is a short but substantive speculation about how AI could change incentives around mathematical research and prestige.
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