Why Vladimir Arnold's 'On Teaching Mathematics' reads as a prophecy of AI in math
MannyKayy · x · 2026-09-12
The author revisits Vladimir Arnold's essay On Teaching Mathematics, arguing Arnold foresaw math's drift away from intuition decades ago and might well have backed frontier AI labs today. He suggests reading it alongside Terence Tao's piece on AI and mathematics, noting that in Arnold's view math had lost its way long before AI and LLMs entered the picture.
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