What Timothy Gowers thinks about mathematics
British mathematician; Fields Medal 1998. Professor at the Collège de France and fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Started the Polymath collaborative-proof projects and the 2012 Cost of Knowledge boycott of Elsevier. Writes Gowers's Weblog.
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3 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Timothy Gowers has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsI agree with Jacob that mathematicians have the sort of training that makes them well suited to contribute.
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Their wordsit still doesn't seem to be the case that LLMs are better than all humans at all aspects of mathematics.
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Their wordsFor example, it seems to me that the importance of rigorous proof will be even greater in an AI age than it was before - if the output of AI is not underpinned by rigorous proof, then the kinds of difficulties one already hears about with certain areas of human mathematics (see for example many talks by Kevin Buzzard arguing for the value of formalization) would be hugely magnified.