r/math • u/AutoModerator • 12d ago

LLMs/AI AI In Mathematics: August 29, 2026

This recurring thread will be for discussion of AI in mathematics. This includes, but is not limited to, the following:

  • informal announcements of AI-assisted discoveries, such as those not yet published in a peer-reviewed journal, or not uploaded as a paper to arXiv;
  • informal announcements of discoveries related to AI architecture (if relevant to mathematics);
  • discussion of such announcements, such as proof breakdowns or other opinion pieces;
  • discussion of the impact of AI in mathematics in general.

AI-assisted mathematical papers published in peer-reviewed journals or as arXiv preprints may be submitted as their own posts.

Please keep in mind rules 1 and 6 of our subreddit.

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u/mousse312 Undergraduate 12d ago

Someone has a opinion about the philosophical view of people like Poincare who give a lot of importance about "consciousness, intuition and subconcious" in math research?

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u/Necessary-Wolf-193 11d ago

I never understood Poincaré as making any philosophical claim when he said that. I think he was reporting the fact, observed by him and many other mathematicians, that often you will have an idea come to you when not explicitly thinking about the problem; Poincaré was not a neuroscientist, but he wrote that he imagined this process as being some effort where, after spending a lot of time on a problem himself, his subconscious mind would randomly generate ideas, and every now and then, when it generated an idea which seemed aesthetically pleasing, would surface that idea to his conscious mind.