Why Did Thomas Harriot Invent Binary? (2021)(fermatslibrary.com)

52 points by adityaathalye 3 years ago | 40 comments

AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain(davidepiffer.com)

524 points by rzk 2 months ago | 452 comments

A Substack essay by Davide Piffer arguing that AI's edge over mathematicians comes from a vast symbolic working memory rather than superior reasoning.

Plimpton 322 is Babylonian exact sexagesimal trigonometry(sciencedirect.com)

71 points by Luc 3 years ago | 5 comments

Probabilistic Artificial Intelligence(arxiv.org)

335 points by pavanto 1 year ago | 83 comments

arXiv listing for "Probabilistic Artificial Intelligence" by Andreas Krause and Jonas Hübotter, a manuscript on probabilistic ML, uncertainty, and decision-making.

Mathematical methods and human thought in the age of AI(arxiv.org)

195 points by zaikunzhang 7 months ago | 80 comments

Mathematics in the age of AI(arxiv.org)

196 points by jonbaer 2 months ago | 231 comments