Fields Medalist Borcherds and Eric Weinstein debate what's left for mathematicians in the AI era
TOEwithCurt · x · 2026-11-09
A podcast episode on mathematics in the age of AI, featuring Fields Medalist and UC Berkeley professor Richard Borcherds and Harvard math PhD Eric Weinstein. They tackle three questions: what mathematics is about, what the future holds for math students, and what is at stake.
Key topics:
- Whether AI can build theories or only solve problems
- Why pure mathematics is worth funding
- What remains for human mathematicians
- Sporadic groups and whether math will go the way of chess
- Who deserves credit if a stranger with an AI proves the Riemann hypothesis
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