Fields Medalist Hugo Duminil-Copin: Solving Problems No Longer Has Value
soumitrashukla9 · x · 2026-10-10
Fields medalist Hugo Duminil-Copin, reacting to OpenAI's recent flood of math proofs, says "solving problems no longer has any value." He argues mathematics will have to become a human science: its role will be to formalize analogies and study how humans think and abstract.
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