Mathematical Thinking Isn't What You Think It Is(quantamagazine.org)

30 points by isaacfrond 1 year ago | 8 comments

Alexander Grothendieck Revolutionized 20th-Century Mathematics(quantamagazine.org)

124 points by anujbans 5 months ago | 26 comments

A New Geometry for Einstein's Theory of Relativity(quantamagazine.org)

120 points by jandrewrogers 1 year ago | 8 comments

Mystery math whiz and novelist advance permutation problem(quantamagazine.org)

201 points by sashank_1509 3 years ago | 80 comments

The Mathematician Who Sculpted the Shape of Space(quantamagazine.org)

96 points by digital55 3 years ago | 19 comments

How Isaac Newton discovered the binomial power series (2022)(quantamagazine.org)

79 points by FromTheArchives 1 year ago | 16 comments

Biology might not be quantum, but its math is quantumlike(quantamagazine.org)

112 points by pseudolus 1 month ago | 49 comments

Quanta Magazine article arguing that while biology may not rely on quantum effects, the mathematics describing biological systems resembles quantum math.

We're gonna need a lot more mathematicians(terrytao.wordpress.com)

358 points by srcreigh 1 month ago | 461 comments

Guest post by Amit Sahai on Terence Tao's blog arguing that the world will need many more mathematicians, reflecting on students who left math due to pace.

If math is more than proof, we need to better celebrate the rest of it(terrytao.wordpress.com)

383 points by num42 1 month ago | 275 comments

Guest post by Grant Sanderson on Terence Tao's blog arguing that mathematics is about understanding, not just proofs, and that non-proof contributions deserve more recognition.

The slow collapse of critical thinking in OSINT due to AI(dutchosintguy.com)

385 points by walterbell 1 year ago | 203 comments

Blog post by Nico Dekens (dutch_osintguy) arguing that reliance on AI tools is eroding critical thinking among OSINT investigators.

The new skill in AI is not prompting, it's context engineering(philschmid.de)

832 points by robotswantdata 1 year ago | 467 comments

Blog post by Philipp Schmid arguing that context engineering, supplying LLMs with the right information and tools, matters more than prompting for AI agents.

A misalignment of AI in mathematics(mathandai.org)

1171 points by meredydd 1 month ago | 1120 comments

A declaration by mathematicians arguing that AI companies' use of math problems as benchmarks harms mathematics and the mathematical community, inviting endorsements.