Mathematician Strogatz asks: will AI develop curiosity and taste, not just problem-solving
stevenstrogatz · x · 2026-10-11
Mathematician Steven Strogatz's new book Big Math, co-authored with Alex Townsend, explores how mathematics underpins everyday technologies from medical imaging to wireless communications.
In an accompanying conversation, Strogatz goes beyond the book with a broader question: as AI becomes capable of solving increasingly hard math problems, will it also develop the curiosity, taste and judgment to decide which questions are worth pursuing in the first place?
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