Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date browser (or turn off compatibility mode in Internet Explorer). In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles and JavaScript. Advertisement View all journals Saved research Search Log in Content Explore content About the journal Publish with us Subscribe Sign up for alerts RSS feed WORLD VIEW 14 May 2024 # Why mathematics is set to be revolutionized by AI Thomas Fink 0 Thomas Fink Thomas Fink is the director of the London Institute for Mathematical Sciences, UK. Search author on: PubMed Google Scholar Email Bluesky Facebook LinkedIn Reddit Whatsapp X 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. ## Access options Access Nature and 54 other Nature Portfolio journals Get Nature+, our best-value online-access subscription $32.99 / 30 days cancel any time Subscribe to this journal Receive 52 print issues and online access $199.00 per year only $3.83 per issue Rent or buy this article Prices vary by article type from $1.95 to $39.95 Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkout Nature 629 , 505 (2024) doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-01413-w ## References He, Y.-H., Lee, K.-H., Oliver, T. & Pozdnyakov, A. Preprint at arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2204.10140 (2024). Raayoni, G. et al. Nature 590 , 67–73 (2021). Article PubMed Google Scholar Davies, A. et al. 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