Surya Ganguli says AI may make mathematicians deeper, stronger, and more in demand
SuryaGanguli · x · 2026-07-23
Surya Ganguli highlights an analysis of the creativity — not brute force — behind the counterexample to the Jacobian conjecture.
His main takeaway is about the future of mathematics in an AI era: experts may increasingly have to interpret, digest, and distill human intuition from model outputs, with strong mathematical prompting remaining necessary throughout the process. Far from replacing mathematicians, he argues this could make them deeper and more powerful, and therefore even more in demand — a Jevons-paradox style effect for pure and applied math alike.
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