The Atlantic Surveys the Craziness Where Math Meets AI in the Bay Area
stevenstrogatz · x · 2026-11-13
Mathematician and science communicator Steven Strogatz recommends Lila Shroff's piece in The Atlantic. Shroff, who confesses she has "recently become a bandwagon math fan" (and even manages a few correctly typeset polynomials), surveys the craziness unfolding where math and AI collide in the Bay Area and Silicon Valley.
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