AI’s biggest impact may be pulling far more people into mathematics
burny_tech · x · 2026-07-25
The post argues that one major impact of AI disproving big conjectures like Jacobian is that far more people are paying attention to math—and that is a good thing. It frames the upside less as a single proof and more as the attention AI is drawing into the field.
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