Joint Statement about Mathathon

[This is a guest post by a coalition of Caltech mathematicians: the original organizers of Mathathon (Alvan Arulandu, Andrea Li, Avni Garg, Brian Zhao, Caiman Moreno-Earle, Sathvik Redrouthu), two coauthors of the Open Letter about the Mathathon (Dylan King, Tasmin Chu), and other members of the Caltech community (Mayla Ward, Merrick Hua, Robert Joseph George, Sergei Gukov, Shaowu Zhang, Tony Yue Yu, Vihaan Dheer). This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. It is also crossposted at Proofs and Prompts— T.] Mathathon is centered around one question: how can we use AI to augment human understanding of mathematics? This past week, the original organizers of Mathathon, two coauthors of }, and other members of the Caltech community engaged in a conversation to redesign this event. We quickly reached a consensus: problem solving is but one component of mathematics; mathematical understanding and exposition are similarly meaningful. But these…