The fall of the theorem economy - David Bessis

How AI could destroy mathematics and barely touch it

“The product of mathematics is clarity and understanding. Not theorems, by themselves.” —Bill Thurston Handwritten diagram by Alexander Grothendieck My best theorem is one I never wrote down. It crystallized one bright morning in Lausanne, Switzerland, as I was preparing for my last invited conference talk. The proof felt so obvious—and the result so compelling—that I made the reckless move of editing my slides at the last minute. Time was running out and I could only include the announcement as an informal remark at the bottom of the last slide, instead of stating it as a proper…

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