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Terence Tao – Kepler, Newton, and the true nature of mathematical discovery

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“And what those stories teach us about how AI will revolutionize math”

Playback speed × Share post Share post at current time Share from 0:00 0:00 / Transcript 132 10 16 Terence Tao – Kepler, Newton, and the true nature of mathematical discovery “And what those stories teach us about how AI will revolutionize math” Dwarkesh Patel Mar 20, 2026 132 10 16 Share Transcript We begin the episode with the absolutely ingenious and surprising way in which Kepler discovered the laws of planetary motion. People sometimes say that AI will make especially fast progress at scientific discovery because of tight verification loops. But the story of how we discovered the shape of

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