JORDAN ELLENBERG
Can AI quicken the pace of math discovery?DARPA’s new Exponentiating Mathematics programme aims to accelerate pure mathematics research by developing AI tools capable of high-level ...
ChatGPT's greatest achievement might just be its ability to trick us into thinking that it's honestChatGPT, and other generative AI chatbots like it, are trained on vast datasets from across the internet to produce the statistically most ...
The Hawking Index: Hillary Clinton’s 'Hard Choices' tops the listMathematician Jordan Ellenberg proposed this index to measure bestselling books that people do not manage to finish.
Meet Akshay Venkatesh: The Delhi-born who got the Nobel Prize in mathematicsVenkatesh won the Fields Medal for his “profound contributions to an exceptionally broad range of subjects in mathematics”.
Seveneves to Sapiens, books that keep Bill Gates awake at nightThe world’s wealthiest man gives his summer reading list and why they made him lose sleep.
Books everyone starts, no one finishesIt’s a nod to Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time, a book everybody wants to have read but hardly anyone actually finished.
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