Why mathematics is set to be revolutionized by AI — part 1/1

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14 May 2024

# Why mathematics is set to be revolutionized by AI

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Thomas Fink Thomas Fink is the director of the London Institute for Mathematical Sciences, UK.

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Giving birth to a conjecture — a proposition that is suspected to be true, but needs definitive proof — can feel to a mathematician like a moment of divine inspiration. Mathematical conjectures are not merely educated guesses. Formulating them requires a combination of genius, intuition and experience. Even a mathematician can struggle to explain their own discovery process. Yet, counter-intuitively, I think that this is the realm in which machine intelligence will initially be most transformative.

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Nature 629 , 505 (2024)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-01413-w