Quanta: as AI cracks math's hardest problems, mathematicians face existential reckoning
MacrinePhD · x · 2026-10-10
A Quanta Magazine longread by Jordana Cepelewicz explores the grief and anger among mathematicians as AI starts solving the field's hardest open problems: if machines generate proofs without insight, are humans dethroned as the main theorem-proving entities — and where does the value of mathematics reside?
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