Mathematical Understanding in the Age of AI

This essay is now part of Mathematical Life in the Age of AI, a single revised work on understanding, judgment, and the freedom to inquire.

Corresponding sections

Earlier section links remain available below and lead to their place in the revised essay.

• Understanding as a purpose
• From a compact insight to an inquiry
• Institutions and the means of inquiry
• Journals and the authority to judge
• Competition and mathematical life
• The conditions of intellectual self-government
• Grothendieck and the cost of winning
• Why motives
• Motivic inquiry with capable AI
• Learning and participation

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