David Bessis

@davidbessis

Rogue mathematician.
"The product of mathematics is clarity and understanding." — Bill Thurston
davidbessis.substack.com

amazon.com/Mathematica-Se… Joined January 2012

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David Bessis @davidbessis Oct 6

To anyone who emailed me in the past months: I am late, late, late, like I've never been before.
The culprit is my coming book, which I've been working on full time for most of the year. It's still saturating my bandwidth, and has proved much harder to write that I ever expected.

David Bessis @davidbessis 6d

Economics professor thinks mathematicians won't get paid in the future because AI beat him on a social media math puzzle.

James Miller Verified account @JimDMiller Nov 3

AI got the right answer, simulated it 100 million times cause I didn't believe the answer, then provided an explanation I understood for why the answer it gave was right. The last part is what should scare mathematicians hoping they're gonna get paid long into the future.
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David Bessis @davidbessis Oct 23

The mutual comprehension barrier used to prevent large-scale collaborations in mathematics. With AI as a translation device, this is no longer an issue.

Scott Armstrong Verified account @scottnarmstrong Oct 23

There is a major result on the KPZ equation in 2+1 dimensions!

This looks like a great example of what the near future of math research could look like.

Here you have an 11-author paper--basically all top experts who had been working in this direction in recent years--combining all their recent results and insights and prompting Astra like maniacs. The result: a major problem in critical SPDEs that everyone in the field was wondering about is now solved!

Fantastic!

Human + AI interaction ==> more understanding

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David Bessis @davidbessis Oct 22

My friend Ardavan just reopened his copy of Sprats, my first book, which I signed for him 18 years ago.

David Bessis @davidbessis Oct 19

TBH Quillen did manage to reorient the pipeline.

Mathieu Verified account @miniapeur Oct 16

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