Reading all those recent beautiful essays by Terry Tao, Kevin Buzzard and @wtgowers, I could not resist, but write up my deeply personal perspective on how I perceive and see things:
docs.google.com/document/d/e…
Oct 3, 2026 · 8:32 PM UTC
„It's not that I particularly enjoyed competing, but it had become an organic part of my life.”
I can’t help to see this line describing current state of Academia really well. AI powered research has a chance to deliver so many results and what we call today „shortcuts”, that it actually may finally put an end to artificial rat race people do not enjoy but they are to involved to step out of.
„My result” „My research” „My publication” - those are Corporate-Academia rewards, not original scientific intentions. You have to get many of those „my” things because that’s how you build your position in Academia.
I can’t wait to see academic competition being replaced by an actual scientific cooperation. Many will oppose and chose to play the old game. The others will adapt and survive.
good essay pleasure to read thanks, but is the pt of a google doc somehow supposed to indicate human authorship? doesn’t really.
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Nice essay - good luck with actually building your magical mathematical airplanes and satellites.
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Thanks for your essay. The airplane (and satellite) analogy is good, hence the term "mathematics engineering" for what those who will improve the flight vehicles will be doing. xitter.twitterapi.xyz/lpachter/status/210297…
I highly recommned the essay on antedisciplinary science by Sean Eddy written 21 years ago.
journals.plos.org/ploscompbi…
It seems to me that we are currently experiencing the birth of a new discipline: mathematics engineering.
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Overall ok, but do pls realize that it’s more like the first wheelbarrow when it comes to writing. You would have been much better off not letting AI insert cringey passages into it
pangram.com/history/9f329688…
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I liked it. But re
"we will also discover satellites. We will map the whole terrain"
the terrain of math is infinite unlike the globe. Even studying every digit or pi would take a while.
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Yes, but IMO the young mathematicians who learn to use AI well will be the greatest discoverers in the history of mathematics for at least a decade. It may be that AIs become equally creative, but then the limits for them will be a) what they care about b) where they get their budgets to dream from. This will of course be a problem for everyone, but it will be surprising how far a single human mathematician with a small team of crack AI mathematically tuned agents will be able to explore.
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