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Terence Tao

Mathematician at UCLA; Fields Medallist; writes the What's New blog

The latest interviews, podcast appearances, and blog posts from Terence Tao, updated daily.

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4 weeks ago
Sep 10

Stable singularity of the Euler equations on R^3

[This is a guest post by Anima Anandkumar. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI.– T.] The last few days have been a flurry of activity.

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4 weeks ago
Sep 10

Crowdsourcing a list of general resources on AI and mathematics

Given current events, I think it is worthwhile to start collecting useful online resources with regards to AI and mathematics in general.

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5 weeks ago
Sep 8

Finite time blowup with smooth forcing term for the incompressible porous medium, Boussinesq, and incompressible Euler equations

There’s some exciting very recent work by Alpöge and Buckmaster, building upon prior work by Córdoba and Martínez-Zoroa, in the general topic around the infamous global regularity problem…

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6 weeks ago
Aug 26

Rotating needles in space: the road to the Kakeya conjecture, and why it matters

A recent tradition of the ICM is to have a non-technical popular article written for each of its medallists.

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7 weeks ago
Aug 22

Mathematical Discourse

Mathematical Discourse is a new online, peer-reviewed mathematics journal, publishing videos of mathematics research talks of the highest quality.

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7 weeks ago
Aug 21

Quantitative bounds for sets lacking polynomial progressions with shifted prime difference

Ben Krause, Hamed Mousavi, Joni Teräiväinen, and I have just uploaded to the arXiv our paper Quantitative bounds for sets lacking polynomial progressions with shifted prime difference.

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7 weeks ago
Aug 19

Palomar – a registry of Lean verified mathematics

In recent months there has been a proliferation of AI-generated proofs of various old and new results, some of which have been formalized in the proof assistant language Lean.

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8 weeks ago
Aug 17

Mathematics in the age of AI | alphaXiv

Terence Tao's "Mathematics in the Age of AI" explores how the mathematical community should respond to advanced AI capabilities, arguing this era presents a "crisis of values and…

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8 weeks ago
Aug 12

A digestion of the proof of Sendov’s conjecture

This post concerns the following conjecture of Sendov, as well as its strengthening by Phelps–Rodriguez: Conjecture 1 (Sendov’s conjecture) Let $latex {n \geq 2}&fg=000000$, and…

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2 months ago
Aug 6

A partial digestion of the HRT counterexample

A function $latex {f(t) \in L^2({\bf R})}&fg=000000$ of one variable can be translated in space by a spatial shift $latex {x}&fg=000000$ to obtain a new function $latex \displaystyle…

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