The Year Math Changed Forever
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Summary
A.I. is solving problems that stumped the field for decades. Mathematicians look to Terence Tao for guidance on their altered world. A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems. This was a line often invoked by the Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős, who was fuelled by coffee and …
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