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Mathematics is undergoing the biggest change in its history | New Scientist https://www.newscientist.com/article/2518526-mathematics-is-undergoing-the-biggest-change-in-its-history/

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

AI without meaning is not intelligence, it is mathematics
#philosophy

AI and the Neglect of Meaning: From Unlimited to Indefinite
The story of artificial intelligence is not just one of increasing computational power—it’s also a story about how machines relate to meaning. Or more precisely, how meaning has been progressively sidelined in favor of statistical pattern manipulation. To understand this, we can trace AI’s evolution through a

Universal energy limits of #RadiationBelts in planetary and brown dwarf magnetospheric systems: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aea4945 -> A new model defines an upper limit to planetary radiation belt intensity: https://www.helsinki.fi/en/news/mathematics-and-science/new-model-defines-upper-limit-planetary-radiation-belt-intensity

"However, for the vast majority of mathematics research results, only a few experts are equipped to properly evaluate their novelty and significance. This evaluation gap has enabled misinformation about AI-generated mathematics to spread unchecked in popular media."
'Evaluation gap' is auch ein schöner Euphemismus für "niemand will sich den ganzen KI output durchlesen...
via: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.10177v3

The Cooperator’s Dilemma: How Martin Nowak’s Mathematics of Kindness Became a Blueprint for Control
Martin Nowak wanted to prove that cooperation is the animating force of evolution. He succeeded. His mathematical models, published across decades of work at Oxford, Princeton, and Harvard, demonstrate with formal rigor that cooperation is not an anomaly in a competitive world but a fundamental mechanism by which biological complexity arises. Genomes cooperate. Cells…

The Cooperator’s Dilemma: How Martin Nowak’s Mathematics of Kindness Became a Blueprint for Control | David Boles, Blogs
Martin Nowak wanted to prove that cooperation is the animating force of evolution. He succeeded. His mathematical models, published across decades of work at Oxford, Princeton, and Harvard, demonst…

It’s only a matter of time before some idiot P-plater annihilates a stretch of the Hume Highway—mark my words—and Benalla disappears in a burst of gamma rays.
#GrouchyOldMan https://

Physicists moved volatile antimatter by truck for the first time ever — paving the way for groundbreaking new
CERN scientists transported antimatter by truck for the first time, enabling ultraprecise studies that could reveal why matter dominates the universe. …

Q&A with mathematicians behind the "First Proof" experiment, which tests AI's mathematical competence on questions drawn from the authors' unpublished research (Siobhan Roberts/New York Times)
https://www.nyt…

Pedro the #Math Cat 🐈 helping me grade a competition problem

Northern hemisphere snow cover is shrinking—new analysis tracks how fast #environment

Northern hemisphere snow cover is shrinking—new analysis tracks how fast
Faculty at Mississippi State University are continuing work at the intersection of mathematics, statistics, and climate science with the publication of a new study examining regional snow cover trends across the Northern Hemisphere. The results suggest shrinking snow coverage as well as seasonal shifts for when the wintry layer comes and goes. The study, "Regional Analysis of Snow Presence Trends in the Northern Hemisphere," was published in January in the Journal of Hydrometeorology.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Broken Social Scene:
🎵 Love and Mathematics
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``Obvious'' is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
-- Eric Temple Bell

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #SoundOfCinema
James Horner & James Horner:
🎵 A Beautiful Mind "A Kaleidoscope Of Mathematics"
#JamesHorner
https://open.spotify.com/track/2MK1w1IP4XRVML4ytPb6qC

Modeling the mutational dynamics of very short tandem repeats
Amos Onn (Chair of Experimental Medicine and Therapy Research, University of Regensburg, Bioinformatics Group, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, and Interdisciplinary Center for Bioinformatics, University of Leipzig), Tzipy Marx (Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Weizmann Institute of Science), Liming Tao (Cellular Tissue Genomics, Genentech), Tamir Biezuner (Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Weizmann Institute of Science), Ehud Shapiro (Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Weizmann Institute of Science), Christoph A. Klein (Chair of Experimental Medicine and Therapy Research, University of Regensburg, Fraunhofer Institute for Toxicology and Experimental Medicine Regensburg), Peter F. Stadler (Bioinformatics Group, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, and Interdisciplinary Center for Bioinformatics, University of Leipzig, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Institute for Theoretical Chemistry, University of Vienna, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Center for non-coding RNA in Technology and Health, University of Copenhagen, Santa Fe Institute)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.25628 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.25628 https://arxiv.org/html/2603.25628
arXiv:2603.25628v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Short tandem repeats (STRs) are low-entropy regions in the genome, consisting of a short (1-6 bp) unit that is consecutively repeated multiple times. They are known for high mutational instability, due to so-called stutter-mutations, in which the number of units in the run increases or descreases. In particular, STRs with repeat unit length of 1-2 bp are prone to mutate even within several cell divisions. The extremely rapid accumulation of variation makes them interesting phylogenetic markers for retrospective single-cell lineage reconstruction. Here we model their mutational dynamics at the level of individual repeat unit type and then aggregate length variations over many STR loci with the aim of obtaining a very fast ``molecular clock''. We calibrate our model based on several datasets with known lineage structure prepared from cultured cells. We find that the mutational dynamics of STRs are reasonably consistent for a given cell line, but vary among different ones. This suggests that the dynamics are not entirely explained by mutations in caretaker genes, rather, various other factors play a role -- possibly tissue origin and differentiation state. Further data and research is necessary to asses their relative effects.
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The First Thing They Burn: Why War Always Comes for Beauty
When the Mongol army sacked Baghdad in 1258, they did not stop at killing the Caliph. They threw the contents of the House of Wisdom into the Tigris. Manuscripts on astronomy, medicine, mathematics, philosophy, and poetry turned the river black with ink for days. Killing people was not enough. What those people had made, what they had thought and dreamed and rendered into form, that had to be annihilated too.

The First Thing They Burn: Why War Always Comes for Beauty | David Boles, Blogs
When the Mongol army sacked Baghdad in 1258, they did not stop at killing the Caliph. They threw the contents of the House of Wisdom into the Tigris. Manuscripts on astronomy, medicine, mathematics…

On Tuesday famed climate scientist Kate Marvel joined the more than 10,000 people with PhDs in science, engineering and mathematics who, according to Science, are reported to have left the U.S. federal workforce since
Donald Trump took office in January.
Marvel resigned from NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Sciences (GISS), where she studied climate change and its effects on Earth’s systems. In her resignation letter, she wrote that “the decision to leave was not an easy one.”…

Top climate scientist Kate Marvel just resigned from NASA. Here's why
Climate scientist Kate Marvel talked to Scientific American about her decision to leave NASA amid federal government turmoil and funding challenges

There’s also knowledge that is not derived from scientific experiments or observation.
For example, the very fundamentals of mathematics are literally just agreed upon statements taken to be true.
(This is referred to as an axiomatic system, a type of deductive logical structure; also very popular in computer science!).

The paragraph
"Amateurs and cranks aim higher, and are currently producing large documents which purport to contain breakthrough results, but which do not survive 5 minutes of expert scrutiny. I continually find it surprising that a non-expert can genuinely believe that they might contribute to research mathematics using only the tools which the experts also have access to. ..."
is taking the words right out of my mouth!!
https://xenaproject.wordpress.com/2026/02/09/accelerating-mathematics/

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)
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/02/ai-math-terrance…

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

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Alle acht bisherigen Vorträge der Reihe „Open Divide – Critical Studies on Open Access“ (weitere werden folgen) sind in der Mediathek der TIB verfügbar:
#OpenAccess

Nerd sniped myself this time: after getting sniped yesterday with showing that for primes `p >= 5` that `24 | p^2 - 1`, I decided to look at primes `p, q` where `p, q >= 5` and see if `24 | p^2 - q^2`.
#math #nerdsnipe

Blocked by person refusing to believe a #Mathematics #textbook and #proofs because of a random #Wikipedia …

🚨Job Alert!🚨 Three (3) tenure track positions at Tohuku University: #Mathematics, #Physics, #Astronomy, #Geophysics

The NY Times interview is full of amazing insights.
E.g. @… makes the point that AI is both touted as being your collaborator or colleague with whom you can play back and forth to do math while at the same time the LLM is always praising your input, never challenging you and there is zero trust in the output.
It's the most painful of all possible collaborations: One who cannot be trusted at all.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/science/mathematics-ai-proof-hairer.html
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Crosslisted article(s) found for math.GN. https://arxiv.org/list/math.GN/new
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- Compactness in Constructive Mathematics via Affine Logic
Kazumi Kasaura
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Why Computation Can’t Create—And Where It Hits the Logic Ceiling.
While logic can rearrange the pieces of an existing puzzle, it cannot explain the spark that creates the pieces themselves.
https://ocrampal.com/the-scope-of-geneosophy-where-concept-creation…

The Scope of Geneosophy: Where Concept-Creation Matters
Not every domain of inquiry requires genosophical investigation. Understanding when geneosophy applies—and when traditional approaches suffice—clarifies both its potential and its proper limits. The Traditional Domain: Working Within Given Concepts Science, mathematics, programming, AI, and most philosophy operate successfully within what we might call "conceptually closed" domains. These

Top AI researchers argue that AI is now more useful for mathematics thanks to the latest "reasoning" models, as math becomes a key way to test AI progress (Melissa Heikkilä/Financial Times)
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