Fields Medalist Tsimerman: math will soon rest on proofs no one understands
TOEwithCurt · x · 2026-10-11
Jacob Tsimerman, who won this year's Fields Medal, argues that mathematics will soon rest on proofs no one understands. He says this is already true of many of his own theorems, which build on accepted results whose proofs he does not know.
The remark comes from a full podcast episode.
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