27 stories tagged terence-tao, newest first.
38 points by tokepi | 29 comments
Guest post on Terence Tao's blog announcing oai-math-revised, a GitHub community effort to improve and properly cite OpenAI's math write-ups, inviting contributors and reviewers.
23 points by paulorlando | 9 comments
Blog essay on mathematicians' emotional reactions to AI-generated proofs, framing it as the end of math's romantic era and comparing it to past industrial disruptions.
111 points by smilelamp | 148 comments
Guest post by Francesco Maggi on Terence Tao's blog discussing whether AI and large language models will bring a golden or dark age for mathematics and science.
189 points by vinipolicena | 382 comments
New York Times article about mathematician Terence Tao and a crisis in mathematics, apparently related to AI; the page loaded as a captcha check.
78 points by smilelamp | 31 comments
A guest post by Rikab Gambhir on Terence Tao's blog reflecting on why mathematicians and physicists do their work as AI reshapes research.
92 points by smilelamp | 14 comments
A blog post on Terence Tao's blog titled "Illustration Beyond Proof"; the capture only shows a browser-check interstitial.
![Screenshot of teorth.github.io: Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/10/11/5fa8cc24-3e1c-4321-8c9a-8aee16c4af72.jpg)
533 points by Anon84 | 530 comments
PDF slide deck titled "Math 2.0" by mathematician Terence Tao, dated October 2026, apparently from a Caltech talk.
17 points by elo2000 | 7 comments
Vinay Prasad's Substack post arguing that Terence Tao misused a cancer drug analogy when discussing AI solving math problems without explaining mechanisms.
178 points by matt_d | 50 comments
Terence Tao blog post on what mathematicians should know about the Lean theorem prover, covering reliability and AI; the capture shows only a browser-check interstitial.
579 points by ent101 | 603 comments
A Mastodon post by Terence Tao arguing that "Math 2.0" should value exposition, community building and new directions over raw problem solving, with AI playing a role.
101 points by smilelamp | 53 comments
Guest post by Jeremy Avigad on Terence Tao's blog discussing the future of mathematics, framed by historical transformations of the subject.
358 points by srcreigh | 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.
150 points by digital55 | 76 comments
Guest post on Terence Tao's blog announcing the Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, with members including Tao, Gowers, Hairer, Witten and others.
383 points by num42 | 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.
418 points by _alternator_ | 359 comments
A Mastodon thread by Terence Tao arguing that good, fruitful open math problems are a scarce resource being mined non-renewably, using a drinking-water analogy.
![Screenshot of youtube.com: Terence Tao explains 6 essential mathematical concepts [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/8/31/b2a2d852-1052-4a88-a001-bde2154aa156.jpg)
582 points by matthewsinclair | 77 comments
A Big Think YouTube video in which mathematician Terence Tao explains six essential concepts of mathematics.
1028 points by gmays | 587 comments
A shared ChatGPT conversation, attributed to Terence Tao, working through the factorization and Jacobian check of a claimed Jacobian Conjecture counterexample.
420 points by subset | 124 comments
Terence Tao blog post on using modern AI coding agents to migrate his old Java 1.0 math applets into new web apps and build new ones.
![Screenshot of gwern.net: Terence Tao, at 8 years old (1984) [pdf]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/2/24/d868f1e7-9915-4679-8bb0-f6d116950404.jpg)
456 points by gurjeet | 278 comments
A 1984 academic paper by M. A. (Ken) Clements giving a biographical account of Terence Tao's mathematical precociousness as a young child and its educational implications.
590 points by cod1r | 334 comments
Terence Tao's Mastodon post reporting that Erdős problem #728 was solved more or less autonomously by AI, and discussing emerging AI-powered capabilities in mathematics.
968 points by bertman | 490 comments
A Mastodon post by mathematician Terence Tao reflecting on how society operates at four scales and how the role of small organized groups has shrunk.
507 points by qsort | 161 comments
A Mastodon post by Terence Tao contrasting blue-team (building) and red-team (vulnerability-finding) roles, applied to how LLMs might be used.
359 points by ColinWright | 79 comments
Mastodon post by Terence Tao announcing part two of Grant Sanderson's video interview with him on the cosmic distance ladder, plus a blog post with commentary.
788 points by GavCo | 256 comments
A Mastodon post by mathematician Terence Tao noting a journal rejected one of his papers and reflecting on how common, yet rarely discussed, rejection is in academia.
626 points by dselsam | 404 comments
Mastodon post by mathematician Terence Tao describing his experiments with OpenAI's o1 model on research-level mathematical tasks.
516 points by pera | 144 comments
A Mastodon post by Terence Tao describing Guth and Maynard's improvement to Ingham's 1940 zero density bound for the Riemann zeta function.
463 points by gridentio | 207 comments
Terence Tao's Mastodon post explaining how formalizing his paper in Lean 4 revealed a small bug in an argument for small values of n.