Fields Medalists' citation counts in OpenAI repo: Thurston has just 1, Yoccoz zero
lpachter · x · 2026-10-11
- A repo tracking how subfields were hit by the "OAI drop" listed total citations for Fields medalists, with startling results: topology great Thurston has only 1 citation and Yoccoz has none.
- Mathematician lpachter (84K followers) quipped that he remembers when mathematicians claimed citations don't mean anything in mathematics.
- The thread highlights the absurd mismatch when AI-circle citation stats are applied to traditional math scholarship.
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