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Petra Schwer @petraschwer.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Like many others I was feeling the lack of a platform where the full spectrum of opinions (in particular also lesser heard voices) on "math and AI" may get an audience. Now here it is! Think about contributing and share it widely! proofsandprompts.com #math #mathsky #llm #AI #mathandai

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Proofs and Prompts

Notes from the common room

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Matt Cordes @mcordes.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Really nice being at this meeting! I encourage everyone to watch the session on AI and research evaluation (especially A. Figalli’s presentation)! Lots of big questions still without answers

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Gro-Tsen @gro-tsen.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Very insightful short essay by Petra Schwer ( mathstodon.xyz/@PetraSchwer ): ‘The meaning of doing mathematics’ “(Can AI solve all math? What do we actually mean by doing mathematics? How do we communicate mathematics? What is mathematics beyond problem solving?)” arxiv.org/abs/2509.15998

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The meaning of doing mathematics

Can AI solve all math? What do we actually mean by doing mathematics? How do we communicate mathematics? What is mathematics beyond problem solving? This essay is my attempt to answer these question...

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Matt Cordes @mcordes.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Indeed! The 2025 edition was great!

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Catherine Munro @catherinemmunro.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

It's the season to appreciate the names of Scottish road gritters ❄️ #Scotland #Christmas

Map of Scotland showing location of road gritter. Most names are puns.Bear Chills, sled Zeppelin, credence clear road survival, thistle gritter through

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Alex Klotz @aklotz.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

What if we kissed 👉👈 in the topological jellyfish

Knot diagram that looks like three jellyfishes touching

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Emily Pitts Donahoe @empittsdonahoe.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

“How can we expect them to grasp what education means when we, as educators, haven’t begun to undo the years of cognitive and spiritual damage inflicted by a society that treats schooling as a means to a high-paying job, maybe some social status, but nothing more?” nymag.com/intelligence...

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Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College

ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.

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Dan Freeman @dfreeman.io · 02/05/2025

Me, circa 2008: “Sure you can pull some neat tricks with it, but does the pigeonhole principle actually matter for real world day-to-day things?” Edinburgh, this morning:

Two holes in a stone wall, each featuring a pigeon sitting near the front. A third pigeon is peeking out from the back of one of the holes.

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Noreen Masud @noreenmasud.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

again and again and yet again the privileged’s fantasies of oppression take precedence over the marginalised’s real, daily, violent oppression

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 15/08/2024

Posting this extract from a lecture by John Maynard Keynes, speaking on the BBC in the middle of the Second World War, to every Labour cabinet minister

Let us not submit to the vile doctrine of the nineteenth century that every enterprise must justify itself in pounds, shillings and pence of cash income … Why should we not add in every substantial city the dignity of an ancient university or a European capital … an ample theater, a concert hall, a dance hall, a gallery, cafes, and so forth. Assuredly we can afford this and so much more. Anything we can actually do, we can afford… We are immeasurably richer than our predecessors. Is it not evident that some sophistry, some fallacy, governs our collective action if we are forced to be so much meaner than they in the embellishments of life? …

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Lazybrian @lazybrian.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Quark On he runway you are serving solid gold press latinum. But in the comedy challenge you forgot the 97th Rule of Acquisition, if you want to profit, dont bore Q! You're safe

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ꭓle Ormsby 𓆙 @e-infinity.space · 04/03/2025

It's also high time we recognize that all mathematics is Hazardous (and wouldn't be worth doing if it weren't).

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OURFA²M² @ourfa2m2.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Only 1 day until the fifth annual OURFA2M2 conference. Are you ready? Visit our website ourfa2m2.org to register for free!

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OURFA²M² @ourfa2m2.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Meet 4 of our Crash Course speakers for the upcoming OURFA2M2 conference February 8-9 2025! The goal of the Crash Course talks is to inspire curiosity and give students exposure to various areas of math. For more information and to register for the event, visit our website ourfa2m2.org

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 01/02/2025

Shout out to all the fuckwits who told me, two months ago, that scientists must strive to remain apolitical.

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Spencer Bagley @sbagley.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

I've said it before and will doubtless have occasion to say it again: a cool 60% of everything that's wrong with higher ed stems from colleges believing that they are credentialing institutions rather than educational institutions

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Prof Christelle Vincent @xl772.bsky.social · 13/04/2024

Lololol I broke a big scary task up into so many little tasks that I got overwhelmed and gave up

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