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@fanf@mendeddrum.org
2026-02-22 17:10:59

On the mathematician Percy Heawood,
“A well-loved but somewhat eccentric figure, he set his watch just once a year on Christmas Day and considered a day as wasted if he failed to attend at least one committee meeting.”
boggle!

@cdarwin@c.im
2026-03-07 06:05:54

Masood Masjoody, a mathematician critical of both Iran’s theocratic regime and the exiled family of the former shah,
went missing in early February in the city of Burnaby, British Columbia.
Police are still searching for Masjoody’s body,
and a spokesperson for the integrated homicide investigations team,
which is part of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP),
said all of the evidence investigators have collected indicates foul play.

Iranian mathematician missing in Canada may have been targeted by Tehran, activists say
Police say Masood Masjoody was most likely murdered; Iranian expats suspect he was killed for his criticism of the theocratic regime

@david_colquhoun@mstdn.social
2026-03-09 10:01:03

Terence Tao, the famous mathematician, cited by @kityates.bsky.social, at kityates.substack.com/p/can-we

"One thing we’ve learned from using AIs is that if you give them a goal, they will cheat like crazy to achieve the…

Can we really claim to ‘know’ what only a machine can prove?
The rise of AI proofs and the limits of human understanding

@ocrampal@mastodon.social
2026-02-15 16:38:23

In the rush to scale neural networks, we have fallen into a category error: believing that a perfect simulation of an intelligent behavior is the same thing as the existence of intelligence itself.
ocrampal.com/chasing-our-own-t

Chasing Our Own Tail: Self-Reference and the Limits of any Academic Discipline
Marcus Doubtful, a physicist turned philosopher. Richard Trad, a mathematician turned philosopher. Both have spent decades thinking about the foundations of knowledge, but they've reached very different conclusions. Richard: Marcus, I've been reading your recent work on disciplinary self-reference. While I find your historical analysis interesting, I think you're making

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-02-05 07:06:04

A look at Axiom, which is building AxiomProver, an "AI mathematician" it claims has solved at least four previously unsolved math problems (Will Knight/Wired)
wired.com/story/a-new-ai-math-

A New AI Math Startup Just Cracked 4 Previously Unsolved Problems
Axiom says its AI found solutions to several long-standing math problems, a sign of the technology’s steadily advancing reasoning capabilities.

@kctipton@mas.to
2026-03-13 05:38:43

Mathematics is undergoing the biggest change in its history | New Scientist newscientist.com/article/25185

Mathematics is undergoing the biggest change in its history
The speed at which artificial intelligence is gaining in mathematical ability has taken many by surprise. It is rewriting what it means to be a mathematician

@fgraver@hcommons.social
2026-03-09 18:50:35

How should we define mathematical beauty in the AI age? | Aeon Essays
The eye of the mathematician: Is mathematical beauty real? Or is it just a subjective, human ‘wow’ that is becoming redundant in an AI age? aeon.co/essays/how-should-we-d

@sproid@social.linux.pizza
2026-03-04 13:17:04

I'm not too much of a Podcast person. But I do listen to 1 or 2 from time to time. But if you like content related to science and curiosity you have to listen (or watch on YouTube) to The Rest Is Science podcast with Professor Hannah Fry and science creator Michael Stevens (Vsauce).
If you don't know who #Vsauce is, you're missing a lot. He's like the Best Friend you neve…

The Rest Is Science
Whether you’re a lifelong science fan or just naturally curious, join mathematician Professor Hannah Fry and science creator Michael Stevens (Vsauce) as they dig into the scientific questions that often go unexplored!

@peterhoneyman@a2mi.social
2026-03-28 17:31:12

a conversation with claude

This is an encounter between [me] and a bronze bust of Claude Shannon (1916-2001), the brilliant mathematician and electrical engineer who is considered the "father of information theory." This bust stands right in front of the EECS (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) Building at Michigan, honoring one of their most distinguished alumni. It's a fitting tribute - Shannon's work literally shaped the entire field that building represents. About Claude Shannon: Created the mathematical …
@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-02-27 02:25:57

Q&A with Terence Tao on AI-generated Erdős solutions, "cheap wins", hybrid human AI contributions, push-of-a-button workflows, new ways of doing math, and more (Matteo Wong/The Atlantic)
theatlantic.com/technology/202

The Edge of Mathematics
Terence Tao, the legendary mathematician, explains the promise of generative AI.

@tomkalei@machteburch.social
2026-04-16 20:31:48

Listening to an AI Podcast with a somewhat famous mathematician and they still talk about Twitter by which they mean current day X.
Feels like complete denial of the truth. These dudes are using the illusion that they are still posting on Twitter to protect their brains from the reality of what they are actually doing.
Amazing how 50K followers make people whose job it is to seek the truth (no matter how hard it is) ignore that other uncomfortable but obvious truth. No Cognitive dissonance?