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Timothy Gowers

@wtgowers.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy

Holder of the Chaire Combinatoire at the Collège de France. Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge. [bridged from mathstodon.xyz/@wtgowers on the fediverse by fed.brid.gy ]

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Timothy Gowers @wtgowers.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 09/05/2026

I've just written a blog post in which I describe a research-level problem (due not t Erdos but to Melvyn Nathanson) that ChatGPT 5.5 Pro recently solved. With a guest section by Isaac Rajagopal, on whose work ChatGPT built […]

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Timothy Gowers @wtgowers.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 11/04/2026

Over the last two or three months I've been getting a large number of emails from school students in the Philippines, or at least that is who they say they are, asking for my general views about mathematics. Is this a well-known trend? (I haven't replied to any of them.)

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Timothy Gowers @wtgowers.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2025

I've just realized that I missed a trick by not posting here on Mastodon about a project to create a database of "motivated proofs", which has received funding from the AI for Math Fund, a joint venture of Renaissance Philanthropies and XTX Markets. Very roughly, that means not just proofs but […]

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Timothy Gowers @wtgowers.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 30/11/2024

I've just followed Bridgy Fed for the fediverse at Bluesky. If I understand correctly, that means that my posts there will appear here under the name @wtgowers.bsky.social It's probably too much to hope for, but nevertheless I hope that that will give me the best of both worlds -- a platform […]

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