Peter Cameron's Blog

Please welcome me, Windrush people, I am joining you (and I trust that you will be more welcoming than some British people were to you).

I just read a powerful article about AI in mathematics, “The Enshittification of Mathematics”, by Fenner Tanswell, from the Mathematical Intelligencer.

In February this year I went to the AAA108 conference in Vienna.

The news this week that OpenAI had released a document listing hundreds of big problems which its robot claims to have solved (including the Boone–Higman conjecture and the Unique Games Conjecture) was the main topic of conversation over coffee.

I am sorry that the blogroll has disappeared.

Let A be a magma, a set with a binary operation.

Yesterday Simeon Ball sent me notices, in New Scientist and phys.org, of his paper with Robin Simoens on quantum solutions to Euler’s 36 officers problem: Given 36 officers belonging to six different ranks and six different regiments, each rank-regiment c…

In 1981, the Soviet mathematician V.

Last night some of the strands of gamgee inside my skull connected up and I remembered something I learned nearly 14 years ago, which I think is relevant to the discussion of AI in mathematics, and in particular to the Birch test.

In the last two hours, the following three news items have appeared on the BBC website: Ex Southern Water boss among four charged over alleged plan to manipulate water quality tests US to announce deal allowing Saudi Arabia a nuclear programme, reports say

I have not been well for a while; my brain has turned to gamgee, and I find it difficult to concentrate on hard mathematics.

A week in the Oude Abdij Drongen, near Ghent in Belgium, accompanying Rosemary to the mODa14 conference.

Not THE famous ABC conjecture, but a conjecture of mine with Mohammed Aljohani and John Bamberg.

I am now retired, and nearly 80.

Take a right-angled triangle with hypotenuse c and the other two sides a and b.