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Updates on my research and expository papers, discussion of open problems, and other maths-related topics. By Terence Tao
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2026 AMS Committee on Education Workshop Report
https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/10/13/2026-ams-committee-on-education-workshop-report/
Published: October 13, 2026 19:30
This is somewhat belated, but: on October 2, the American Mathematical Society released a report based on a recent workshop it organized on the topic of graduate education in the mathematical sciences. (If there have been other such reports that have…
This is normal bad work
https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/10/12/this-is-normal-bad-work/
Published: October 13, 2026 03:14
[This is a guest post by Sophie Huiberts, being an expanded version of a post on her own blog. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] When you prove a theorem, you are imparted a responsibility to the…
Additional recent pieces on math and AI
https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/10/12/additional-recent-pieces-on-math-and-ai/
Published: October 12, 2026 14:19
I’m collecting here a list of some other recent blog posts or opinion pieces on math and AI beyond the ones posted here or at Proofs and Prompts. Readers are invited to contribute further such links in the comments. Kevin Buzzard, “To grieve, or not to…
Illustration beyond Proof
https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/10/11/illustration-beyond-proof/
Published: October 11, 2026 23:21
[This is a guest post by Kate Stange and Edmund Harriss. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] In January a group of mathematicians, historians, artists and educators gathered at the Institut Henri…
Math 2.0
https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/10/10/math-2-0/
Published: October 10, 2026 16:16
I am uploading my slides to my public lecture “Math 2.0” that I gave yesterday evening at Caltech. (The talk was planned over a year ago, and was initially titled “Machine Assisted Proof” and scheduled to be given back in May. It was postponed to October,…
What mathematicians should know about the Lean Theorem Prover: questions of reliability and AI
Published: October 9, 2026 16:35
[This is a guest post by Thomas Hales. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] Mathematicians have been weighing in on what they value about mathematics. For me, what matters is the consistency of math…
What should we tell our students?
https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/10/08/what-should-we-tell-our-students/
Published: October 8, 2026 14:43
[This is a guest post by Álvaro Lozano-Robledo. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] TL;DR: Keep calm and carry on studying math. I would like to give Terry my heartfelt thanks for giving me the…
AHM Statement on OpenAI’s October 6 Release of Mathematical Documents
Published: October 8, 2026 00:02
[This is a guest post by the Association for Human Mathematics, reposted from their statements page. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] Yesterday, on October 6th, 2026, OpenAI — which is currently…
The barriers of perception
https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/10/07/the-barriers-of-perception/
Published: October 7, 2026 18:13
[This is a guest post by Raghu Meka. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] “This problem has been tried by several famous mathematicians.” “There is a heuristic argument for why these methods cannot…
Hexagon
https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/10/06/hexagon/
Published: October 6, 2026 21:50
[This is a guest post by Ben Antieau, cross-posted from his blog. — T.] There was no personal problem, no world problem, whose eloquent solution did not exist— somewhere in some hexagon. —Jorge Luis Borges, “The Library of Babel” [1] New repository I am…
Changes to the Erdős problems web site
https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/10/06/changes-to-the-erdos-problems-web-site/
Published: October 6, 2026 14:37
[This is a guest post by Thomas Bloom, crossposted from the Erdős problems forum. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] AI is changing everything, for better and/or worse, and the rate of change is…
Postdoc position on formal verification and algorithm discovery for numerical analysis
Published: October 5, 2026 19:56
[This is a guest post by Annalisa Buffa. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] About us and the position The Chair of Numerical Modelling and Simulation at EPFL is dedicated to the design and analysis…
The Future of Mathematics
https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/10/05/the-future-of-mathematics/
Published: October 5, 2026 19:21
[This is a guest post by Jeremy Avigad. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] “Mathematics underwent, in the nineteenth century, a transformation so profound that it is not too much to call it a…
On classical solutions and singularity formation in incompressible fluids
Published: October 4, 2026 15:25
[This is a guest post by Diego Córdoba and Luis Martínez-Zoroa. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] Euler formulated the equations for an inviscid incompressible fluid more than 250 years ago.…
What does the advent of powerful AI models mean for mathematicians like me?
Published: October 3, 2026 14:31
[This is a guest post by Jennifer Taback. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] Recently I have read a stream of articles questioning the future of mathematics: what constitutes a proof, what we…
AIM: an invitation to explore mathematics together
https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/10/02/aim-an-invitation-to-explore-mathematics-together/
Published: October 2, 2026 19:11
[This is a guest post by Matthew Colbrook. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] (Disclosure: ChatGPT helped me write and refine this post.) Inspired in part by the recent discussions on this blog, we…