Steven Strogatz
@stevenstrogatz
Mathematician, writer, Cornell professor. All cards on the table, face up, all the time.
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Really looking forward to reading this new book by @mjmauboussin. I've long admired his interdisciplinary approach to investing, and his writing is always fun and rigorous (not so easy to do both at the same time!)
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Another "coincidence", like the one that happened to Tristan Buckmaster with the solution of the Navier-Stokes problem? Except now it's in biology: Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? via @NYTimes
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Two heroes of today's Navier-Stokes story are not getting enough credit. Córdoba and Martínez-Zoroa came up with the crucial strategy. Others built on it and, with the help of AI, provided the computations that finished the problem. Thankfully @QuantaMagazine gets this right:
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If you are baffled but curious about the Navier-Stokes news today, this article I tweeted about a few days ago is now more worth reading than ever. It gives a witty, insightful overview for a general reader, as long as you are willing to read about math.
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"I present the case for total opposition to the use of artificial intelligence in mathematics."
= a view you don't often hear on X. But I am looking forward to reading it carefully, and if you care about math and AI, I encourage you to do the same.
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Latest crazy story from the frontiers of math and AI -- a neurosurgery resident, with no training in advanced math, uses ChatGPT 5.6 to solve a major open problem in numerical linear algebra.
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