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Claude used my pipeline to find a counterexample to the Jacobian conjecture. 2026 is so wild.

About a month ago, I released under CC0 an implementation of a pipeline I had spent two years developing. Its the pipeline Claude used to...

Critique of the Fields Medal, the Institutions behind it and elitism in mathematics

This is going to be a long post, and I'm sorry about that. (TLDR at the end) With the 2026 Fields Medalists having just been announced,...

Why do American math textbooks use so much prose and avoid symbols compared to the French/Bourbaki school?

I'm a Brazilian math student, and I recently had a massive "math culture shock" when transitioning to American literature. Im curious about the historical/pedagogical reasons...

The recent streak of LLM conjecture proofs and "mathematics is over" - questions from a non-mathematician

I'm a programmer, not a mathematician, so forgive ignorance on the mathematical side, but I'm reading over the recent conjecture counterexamples trying to gauge how...