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Is your job developing AI coding tools?

"Save for Maynard, a 37-year-old virtuoso who specializes in analytic number theory, for which he won the 2022 Fields Medal—math’s most prestigious award. In dedicated Friday after…

"It has been proved all the zeroes are within a narrow strip centred on the line and you can make the strip as arbitrarily narrow as you like." Nothing close to this is known. The …

You don't think that a model is something abstract? Abstract doesn't have to imply nonphysical in the sense that people think souls or God are nonphysical. I mean abstract in the s…

Well, it is an empirical question whether or not matter is continuous and infinitely divisible, or discrete. Our best theories tentatively suggest that matter is discrete (though i…

I agree that this is a problem with the above definition of model, analogous to the (IMO fatal) problems with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deductive-nomological_model#We... .

No, that's not exactly a sci-fi concoction. In special and general relativity, there are three dimensions for space and one dimension for time, and this is not something that is of…

Sure. Seating Pokemon trainers and Pokemon, where each trainer brings their Pokemon. Idea stolen from this video on Gale-Shapley, which is also typically presented in a "gendered /…

My background in philosophy is "studied a decent amount of it in college," so I certainly could be wrong here. But to me the paragraph that you are describing as "just plain wrong"…

"The sad part is that as the trend continues we may reach a point where a mathematician's intellectually productive life is not sufficient to contribute anything novel, statistical…

I think P != NP is extremely interesting, but I wouldn't say it has strong implications for the nature of the concept of determinism or reality. I think that the idea of a Turing m…

Not sharpest; he says he thinks it can be improved, but not down to 1 (if it could be improved down to 1, that would prove the nonexistence of Landau--Siegel zeros).

Hey, this comment was my attempt at an ELIUndergraduate (5 is probably a little too ambitious for this topic). I hope it may be helpful! https://old.reddit.com/r/math/comments/y93a…

I was thinking about watching this documentary two years ago. That sounds like the reason that I decided not to.

In that case, you might find interesting these two short explanations I posted to Reddit about Siegel zeros (the second is a continuation of the first) :) https://old.reddit.com/r/…

Yes, you should :)

More counterexamples here too: https://old.reddit.com/r/math/comments/xw8i9w/oldest_person_... .

There is a documentary, but I can't attest to its quality (I haven't watched it yet): http://www.zalafilms.com/films/countingabout.html .

There are many, many, many consequences for prime numbers--which to me are concrete enough to be interesting (and are way more concrete than what 99% of mathematicians work on!). O…

The Greek characters in the screenshot are standard for the subject. The letters "chi" and "psi" (in that order) are the preferred letters for denoting Dirichlet characters, and ze…

Unfortunately, nobody can explain anything like this right now. The paper was posted today, is 111 pages long, and it will likely take even professional mathematicians around a yea…