Mean Green Math

I recently came across this very thoughtful opinion piece — leavened with appropriate cartoons — titled Mathematics of the Future, by Pavel Etingof and Slava Gerovitch of the MIT Department of Mathematics.

Just a couple of months ago, major progress was made on the Riemann Hypothesis, one of the great unsolved problems in mathematics (and one of the seven Clay Millenial Problems worth $1 million to the first person who solves them).

This week’s post is a kind of counterpoint to last week’s post about the job prospects of math majors; competition between AI and Wall Street have driven up wages for math majors who are seeking non-academic jobs.

That was the eye-catching headline of a recent Wall Street Journal article, with the subheading “Flush with cash, Wall Street and Silicon Valley are vying to hire the same tiny pool of genius graduates”.

Physics Today recently published an interesting and thought-provoking Q&A with eminent mathematician Ken Ono, who recently took a leave of absence from his tenure-track position at the University of Virgina to join Axiom Math, an company developing AI too…

The Wall Street Journal published a fun profile on Pellegrino Matarazzo, who once graduated from Columbia with a degree in applied mathematics and who became the first American coach to win a trophy in a top European football (soccer) league.

The Wall Street Journal recently published an interesting article (well, I found it interesting) about how “applied mathematics [is being] used to move around six different audiences in a new version of The Phantom of the Opera.”

Source: https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/square_units.png

I feel like I’ve done my good deed for the day by uncovering another instance when ChatGPT claimed a “fact” from the secondary mathematics curriculum that is simply incorrect.

Let be the statement “This is an Easter Bunny,” let be the statement “There is a tooth fairy,” and let be the statement “There is a Queen of England.”

Let be the set of all things, be the proposition “ kills you,” and let be the proposition “ makes you stronger.”

Let be the statement “I am king” and let be the statement “You will be first against the wall.”

Let be the set of all people, and let be the statement “ has dues in life to pay.”

Let be the statement “You die a hero” and let be the statement “You live long enough to see yourself become the villian.”

I’m doing something that I should have done a long time ago: collecting a series of posts into one single post.