Jean-Pierre Serre turns 100: math as art still holds as machines out-compute us
begusgasper · x · 2026-09-17
Mathematician Jean-Pierre Serre turned 100. Nina Begus recalls his long-standing view that math is closer to the pursuit of art — a stance that still holds even as machines do math better than us, and one defended by the recent Leiden Declaration on AI and Math.
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