Terence Tao is often called the “Mozart of Math.”
A child prodigy born in Australia, Tao, 50, is now at the top of his field at the University of California at Los Angeles,
working in the rarefied realms of partial differential equations or harmonic analysis on problems so hard it may take a PhD to understand them.
But for the past few weeks, he’s been preoccupied with more run-of-the-mill pecuniary concerns: fundraising.
Being one of the world’s greatest mathematic…
Descartes realizing the exponential permutations between all available options. #cartesianExplosion
Axiom Math, which aims to build an "AI mathematician" and has recruited researchers from Meta, raised a $64M seed led by B Capital at a $300M valuation (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites…
Mathematician Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck was born #OTD in 1942.
She is known for her work on PDEs, calculus of variations, topology, and gauge theory, and was the second woman (after Emmy Noether!) to give the plenary lecture to the International Congress of Mathematicians.
Wow…I hadn’t really realized he was still alive.
When I was a kid, I was in my grandfathers office/tv room flipping radio dials and heard “so long mom (I’m off to drop the bomb)” and thought “what the hell?” - and that was my introduction to Dr. Demento and a larger world.
Thanks, Mr Lehrer.
A sad passing of a pillar of my sense of humor. My father gave me a copy of That Was the Year That Was when I was about 10 years old and it tickled me in a way that little has since, save maybe Monty Python. May you rest in peace with no pigeons to be found. 🐦
Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.AI. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.AI/new
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- The Mathematician's Assistant: Integrating AI into Research Practice
Jonas Henkel
newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/im-an-award-winning-mathematician @… says it so well
Tom Lehrer, the Harvard-trained mathematician whose wickedly iconoclastic songs made him a favorite satirist in the 1950s and ’60s on college campuses and in all the Greenwich Villages of the country,
died on Saturday at his home in Cambridge, Mass.
He was 97.
His death was confirmed by David Herder, a friend.
Mr. Lehrer’s lyrics were nimble, sometimes salacious and almost always sardonic,
sung to music that tended to be maddeningly cheerful.
Accompanying…
Oleg Marichev: On the occasion of the eightieth anniversary
V. Kiryakova, V. V. Kravchenko, C. P. Li, Yu. Luchko, S. V. Rogosin, S. M. Sitnik, E. L. Shishkina, Vu Kim Tuan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25246
A friend (who is also a mathematician) sent us feedback that this text is maybe too optimistic and contributes to the general public trusting LLMs to do math. If that is read in there, I have done a terrible job writing it. So let me quote the core of my answer:
On the societal level it is a disaster. Look what it has done to education already and it will not stop there. I think math research as we know it is in big danger.
#llm #math
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https://machteburch.social/@tomkalei/115038889042353525
On the occasion of Dr. Ivan Dmitrievich Remizov's 40th birthday
Ksenia Dragunova, Elmira Kalimulina, Rustem Kalmetev, Nasrin Nikbakht, Elena Nozdrinova, Alexander Pechen, Alexei Savvateev, Evgeni Shavgulidze, Ranjit Singh, Alexander Vedenin, Boris Volkov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18650
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