The Future of Mathematics

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A mathematician argues that AI has disrupted mathematicians’ day-to-day workflows by making many previously publishable results easier to generate, while leaving unanswered how to preserve human mathematical understanding. In 1853, Bernhard Riemann submitted three potential topics to Carl Friedrich Gauss, illustrating how new ideas can come from long-horizon human judgment rather than short-term optimization. The proposed response is to re-focus on harder problems, broader questions, and active experimentation with new tools, while ensuring training and support for the next generation of mathematicians.