Andrew Lott

math PhD student @universityofga. Additive combinatorics. currently visiting the Renyi Institute in Budapest

[Andrew Lott @AndrewLott1331]

@AcerFur Yeah…

[Andrew Lott @AndrewLott1331]

@yuzu_4ever I hate grading

[Andrew Lott @AndrewLott1331]

@dzackgarza Were you able to fill in the gaps?

[Timothy Gowers @wtgowers @wtgowers]

But if AI mathematics continues to progress at anything like its current rate -- which is what I expect to happen -- then we will face a crisis very soon, and mathematics departments, who owe a duty of care to their students, should be urgently preparing for it.

[Andrew Lott @AndrewLott1331]

@eigenknight I hope that you can come! I’ve been here all semester and I’ll be at the workshops/summer schools. I have friends from UGA coming, and some had to go to DC/Chicago to get their visas, but they were processed quickly

[Thomas Bloom @thomasfbloom]

@AcerFur @WesRoth If only every paper in analytic number theory was greeted with this amount of publicity and enthusiasm!

[Andrew Lott @AndrewLott1331]

@mathandcobb @littmath This is a great example of something David Bessis was talking about in his essay. These people don’t understand what math research is and they’re misinterpreting benchmarks. This is really bad for our reputation, and there is not a lot we can do about it https://t.co/ETIZM12Icu

[Andrew Lott @AndrewLott1331]

@AcerFur fully understanding polynomial progressions could be as hard as a millennium problem, but it’s hard to say.

[Andrew Lott @AndrewLott1331]

@AcerFur A special case is the Furstenberg-Sárközy theorem on square differences. This is a two term polynomial progression but the best known upper bound (Green-Sawhney) is still far from the lower bound (Ruzsa) This one is interesting because traditional Fourier analysis applies

[Andrew Lott @AndrewLott1331]

@mathNTb Why is it now formatted this way? This is not as useful.

[Andrew Lott @AndrewLott1331]

@octonion What about combinatorial number theory?

[David Bessis @davidbessis]

Thank you, everyone, for the incredible feedback on "the fall of the theorem economy"!
The subject is of course bigger than just AI and math—it's about the future of human cognition. A few remarks that didn't make it to the published version:⤵️

[Math Lady Hazel 🇦🇷 @mathladyhazel]

These Dover math book covers are so beautiful.

[Andrew Lott @AndrewLott1331]

@jdlichtman One more example: https://t.co/pda7yF3leB

[Andrew Lott @AndrewLott1331]

@NoahJSnyder @AcerFur Always love seeing Pete on stack exchange.

[Andrew Lott @AndrewLott1331]

@badQuants_r_us This is insane.

[Andrew Lott @AndrewLott1331]

@AcerFur Wow I figured you would be a senior. Haha it’s impressive that you already know so much.

Honestly I think you should finish the degree so that you don’t accidentally shut any doors. I guess Silicon Valley has a lot of drop outs though.

[Andrew Lott @AndrewLott1331]

@AcerFur How much time do you have left to finish your degree? At least in the US most universities have rules that require graduate students to have undergraduate degrees. Maybe Europe is different

[Andrew Lott @AndrewLott1331]

Also, if you’re curious: the statue is of the chronicler of Béla III. He wrote a book called Gesta Hungarorum (Latin for “The Deeds of the Hungarians”) https://t.co/MMacBBdKgS

[Andrew Lott @AndrewLott1331]

I found the anonymous statue in Budapest yesterday. In the 30s Erdős and his friends would meet here to do math.