Source: Derekthompson
OpenAI has published hundreds of novel mathematical findings in recent months. Academic mathematics is experiencing a genuine crisis: if machines discover theorems faster and more reliably, what do human mathematicians do? The displacement is happening now, in real time, making existing career paths and institutional hierarchies suddenly precarious. Mathematics departments must choose between treating AI as a tool (and retraining around it) or accepting that pure discovery—their core value proposition—is no longer their monopoly.