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#MathsMonday #Math
I've seen 2 people in #Mathematics claim recently that we can't prove that a b=b a - the Commutative Property - and that we just accept it as true. Nope, not only…

Pedro the #Math Cat 🐈 is ready for #Caturday lap time now that I'm back from my long trip
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RE: #math #ai

Fun things to think about the next time you shuffle a pack of cards.
#math

Wooo, another nerd snipe:
Find the limit of the xth root of x as x approaches infinity.
Not too horrible, but definitely a smidge of fun.
#math #nerdSnipe

Start with the number of your birth month (January is 1, February is 2, and so on), add 9 squared, add 12 minus your birthday month number, multiply the value you have by itself, subtract 2.
#USpol #math #maths

Pedro the #Math Cat 🐈 is interested in the otherwise empty suitcase but is not coming with me on my road trip.
#Caturday #cats

I was so consumed by making excuses for my dear aunt that I got owned here. #math

Here is another scenario how research #mathematics as we know it will die (or is dead already?): Balkanization!
Without speculating about the future, current agentic AI systems can produce very impressive research math, certainly on PhD level, sometimes on Fields medal level. It needs to be post processed, etc. but I think it is an established fact.
#llm #math #ai 🧵

Pedro the #Math Cat 🐈 having a #Caturday
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When thinking about what will happen to #math we can take a look at the sciences. Take biology, for example.
Who does #biology for fun and without technology? And if you do that, what level can you reach?
How many people below the level of say MPI Director do original research?
What’s the group size, ie ratio of professor to non-professor researcher?
What is the role of PhD students in a big biology lab?
Do the labs/groips cooperate or compete?

Pedro the #Math Cat 🐈 is, once again, wondering why it's taking so long to grade these final exams.
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Pedro the #Math Cat 🐈 having an outdoor minute for #Caturday
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Thoughts by @… on the whole #math vs #ai complex. https://gowers.wordpress.com/2026/07/26/thoughts-about-the-leiden-declaration/

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#MathsMonday #Mathematics #Math
This week a note about the rules of #Maths, but first, the pict…

A #math #conjecture posted in a paper means two things.
1. We want to know if that statement is true or not.
2. We want to highlight that area of maths and draw human attention to it.
If you post a conjecture on the arXiv today and you have not checked if the latest AI can do it, you will have an e-mail tomorrow by some dude from the valley saying
"I'm not a mathematician but I put your conjecture into xyz and here is a counterexample, please check it".
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I share Linus Torvalds perspective on AI and I raise from OSS projects to #math. Same principles apply in my opinion. We do math because in mathematics there is no ignorabimus as Hilbert said. There is no religion that dictates how math should be done.
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-media/CAHk-=wi4zC Ze8e p3tMv8TtG_80KzsZ1syL9anBtmEh5Z40vg@mail.gmail.com/

Pedro the #Math Cat 🐈 and the flowering yucca
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And one more thing on the Jacobian Conjecture.
I am certain that at least 10 if not 100 mathematicians have tried this exact problem in Fable and also gpt-5.6 Sol with everything turned to 11. Why did an Anthropic employee get the result?
Is it a low probability and they can just try and try to play again beyond the limits of us mere customers? Did this guy get lucky?
Are professional mathematicians maybe holding back the AI by inputting their own ideas how to do it??
#llm #math #jacobian

Pedro the #Math Cat 🐈 observing the 🇨🇦 goose family in the moat
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There is no article about Winfried Bruns on #Wikipedia ??
He is mentioned in many pages, e.g. the one on depth: #math

Pedro the #Math Cat 🐈 extending a paw for #Caturday
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Not really Fibonacci's fault he put his name on a pattern that was already described in ancient texts. What's he to do other than fib? 🤥🤓
#pun #nerd #math #credit #history

Hmm. Now I got banned from #gpt-5.6 Pro for asking too many too hard #math questions?
Well, I guess my usage is unusual...
Maybe if you all also inquire about reductions of this and that to Hilbert's 10th problem so that gpt "thinks" for 141 Minutes too, then this will become "usual" and I get unbanned?

Pedro the #Math Cat 🐈 curled up for #Caturday
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RE: #Stipendium an Fakultät für #Mathematik der #OvGU Magdeburg!
https://math.ovgu.de/Christine_Bessenrodt_Stipendium.html

Pedro the #Math Cat 🐈 cautiously having a #Caturday springtime outdoors minute
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Apparently somebody posted a #counterexample to the Jacobian conjecture on X last night (found by an LLM). I won’t link that junk site, but somebody added it to Wikipedia already if you care:
#math #LLMs #ai

At the faculty of #mathematics at #OvGU we are seeking to fill two professorship in the broadly defined area of statistics:
W2 Applied Stats and Data Science: #jobs #mathjobs