Strogatz & Townsend's new book Big Math tackles math's Faustian bargain with AI
stevenstrogatz · x · 2026-11-11
Mathematicians Steven Strogatz and Alex Townsend publish Big Math: The Hidden Codes That Run Our World, on the math underpinning our AI-suffused moment and the crisis facing mathematicians — ending on the "Faustian bargain" with machines: we may never fully understand the oracles we've made, but we decide what to ask of them and why.
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