Mathematics is a subject for the young

[This is a guest post by Tristan Buckmaster. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] This blog post expands on a theme mentioned at the end of my recent talk at the Institute for Advanced Study on October 19. I would like to thank Matei Coiculescu, Jaume de Dios Pont, Nestor Guillen, Bryna Kra, Terence Tao and Rachel Ward for their valuable comments and suggestions. It is often said that mathematics is a young person’s game, and that mathematicians do their best work early in their careers. I believe this is about to become true in a completely different sense. Mathematics is changing faster than at any point in its history. Today’s graduate students and postdocs will shape its future. Our responsibility is to protect their ideas and recognize their contributions. In my statement on September 7th, the night Levent Alpöge and I released our Euler result and the day before OpenAI announced its Navier–Stokes result, I wrote that we…