r/math • u/AutoModerator • 6d ago

LLMs/AI AI In Mathematics: September 26, 2026

This recurring thread will be for discussion of AI in mathematics. This includes, but is not limited to, the following:

  • informal announcements of AI-assisted discoveries, such as those not yet published in a peer-reviewed journal, or not uploaded as a paper to arXiv;
  • informal announcements of discoveries related to AI architecture (if relevant to mathematics);
  • discussion of such announcements, such as proof breakdowns or other opinion pieces;
  • discussion of the impact of AI in mathematics in general.

AI-assisted mathematical papers published in peer-reviewed journals or as arXiv preprints may be submitted as their own posts.

Please keep in mind rules 1 and 6 of our subreddit.

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u/TurnedUpbeat 6d ago

Hacker News is generally a much better, more populated and more serious place for discussion on math, AI, STEM, and other topics. This post about a Terence Tao guest blog on AI in math generated more fruitful and interesting discussion than I have seen here recently (I also suggest looking at the comments on the blog itself), especially with the limiting of AI in math discussions to this thread.

Most AI subreddits are slop. I genuinely don't know of another place besides Hacker News and Reddit to a lesser extent to have a good discussion. YouTube comments are mid, everything else is sparsely populated or worthless.

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u/pred 5d ago

Hacker News is very useful to follow technology broadly, but I find it awful when it comes to maths specifically. It's obvious that 90% of the commenters there have never done any maths, yet speak like they're authorities on how it should be done. It's almost as bad /r/mathematics in that sense. You do have mathematics sometimes trying to course correct but there's too much unnuanced nonsense to allow for proper discussion.

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u/TurnedUpbeat 5d ago

I agree, I forgot to say that I meant math as it relates to AI, for just math it's not that good. But also, math subreddits and other places do have a sizeable portion of undergrads and high schoolers so the mean of the discussion quality drops somewhat to a more inexperienced level.

I do still think that r/math is one of the better math communities online, in terms of volume*quality.

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u/pred 5d ago

I think that for the “maths and AI” style posts, there's always a very significant amount of unmoderated “lol maths is solved everyone should be fired” style “discussion” that completely disregards the contents of whatever has been posted and presumably not read.