The Future of Mathematics

[This is a guest post by Jeremy Avigad. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] “Mathematics underwent, in the nineteenth century, a transformation so profound that it is not too much to call it a second birth of the subject—its first birth having occurred among the ancient Greeks…” Howard Stein, in “Logos, Logic, and Logistiké: Some Philosophical Remarks on Nineteenth-Century Transformation of Mathematics” “The report of my death was an exaggeration.” Mark Twain “May you live in interesting times.” (traditional) I recently attended a meeting of innovative science and technology startups supported by Convergent Research, the organization that oversees the Lean FRO, a nonprofit that develops the Lean theorem prover. The meeting was designed to stimulate discussion, and when I introduced myself as a mathematician, many participants were eager to talk about the impact of recent events in AI on mathematics and reactions in the…