In Seattle, a Meeting of 5,444 Mathematical Minds
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The largest gathering in the world for mathematics in Seattle from January 8 to January 11 – 5444 mathematicians, 3,272 talks. This year, the program is somewhat separated from the traditional panorama. An official topic, “Mathematics in the era of artificial intelligence”, was developed by Brina Kara, President of the American Sports Association, which hosts the event in cooperation with 16 partner organizations. In the formation or another, the meeting, which is called joint mathematics meetings, or JMM, was held to more or less annually for more than a century.
Dr. Kroos intended the topic of artificial intelligence as a “vigil call”. “Amnesty International is something in our lives, and it is time to start thinking about how it affects your education, students and research,” she said in an interview with the New York Times. “What does it mean to have Amnesty International as a co -author? These are the types of questions that we have to deal with.”
In the second evening, Yan Lakh will be the chief artificial intelligence scientist in Mita, a major lecture entitled “Sports obstacles on the way to artificial intelligence at the human level”, entered the doctor to be a little in technical herbs, but there were digestible escorts.
“The current state of machine learning is that it is absorbed,” he said during the lecture. “Humans do not care, do not mind trying to reproduce mathematicians or scientists; we cannot even reproduce what the cat can do.”
Instead of large language models that operate Chatbots, argue, “on a large scale World modelIt will be the best bet on progressing and improving technology. He said that such a system, in an interview after the lecture, “You can think and plan because it contains a mental model of the world that predicts the consequences of its work.” But there are obstacles, as I admit – some of the problems that can be athletic, and their solutions anywhere on the horizon.
“The way we use the term artificial intelligence today is only one way of perhaps you may have” artificial intelligence “.
The doctor noticed in his lecture that the term artificial general intelligence, or AGI-is a machine with human level-was a wrong designation. He said that humans “have no general intelligence at all.” “We are very specialized.” He said that the preferred term in Meta is “the intelligence of the advanced machine” or AMI – “Ami”, which means the friend in French.
Dr. Haskel has already been sold on the importance of “the use of artificial intelligence to do mathematics, and the tremendous problem of understanding mathematics from artificial intelligence”, and she is an expert in mathematical logic, and she plans to use a program that provides theory to create the equivalent of a textbook: a set of results that intelligence systems can use Artificial to create and verify the most complex and proven sporting research.
For Kenny Banks, the first university level at North Carolina University in Greensburo, who attended JMM, artificial intelligence is not attracted as an exploration guidance tool. He said in an e -mail: “I think that the mathematics that people love are currently driven by the curiosity of man, and what you find computers that you find interesting cannot be the same as what humans find interesting.” However, he was regretted not to pressure any talks related to Amnesty International in the flight line. “The Math + Ai was definitely important, as it has just ended not to work with all the things that I planned!”
Here are some other prominent points of Mathapalooza in Seattle:
Today 1
At 6 pm on Wednesday, January 8, after the cutting ceremony of the tape and awards, the attendees were concluded at the reception ceremony in the exhibition hall. The lot A) was a free food, and B) the exhibitors ’compartments occupied by publishers and the providers of various sports utensils. In Both 337, Robert Fatour was selling an impressive stock of dice – including the new “5 player goes the first dice“A colorful group of five blossoms 60 aspects that do not participate in any common number, which allows five players in the game an equal shot when they rolled to determine who begin His ceramic statues, “plus lycade” and “cubic pressure”.
The award -winning artistic presentations were “Sadde Monster”, which are crochet in wool, copper and nylon, written by Shiing Dong of Greenwich, Conn. , He is a sports artist with a doctorate. In physics …
… and “Twised” and “UNTWISTED”, which was created using the iPad graphics app, written by Rashmi Sunder-Raj, is a sports artist in Waterloo, Ontario.
Rebecca Lynn, PhD received a computer science student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a honorable male of laser cutting on paper, entitled “Disenage (mental status)”.
Today 2
On Thursday, John Wilde, one of the theorists of music at McGill University in Montreal, who is performing mathematics on the side, was invited to a session on applied mathematics to discuss his investigations into “counting arrangements for circuits” in the plane. Looking at certain restrictions, there is one way to draw one circle, three ways to draw two circles, and 14 ways to draw three and 173 methods for four and 16,951 ways to draw five. (The census of six circles has not yet been calculated. Dr. Wilde said: “I felt tickling.”
During a session on mathematics and arts, Susan Goldstein holder, mathematician at St. Mary College, Maryland, on the “Poincaré Blues” craft project. It was called the French mathematics scientist Henry Boukari, and the project participated in making a shiny jeans skirt from old jeans. It was also described in the writing: “After wandering with different patterns, I settled on the tilale of the Poincaré disc of the extra plane with a triangle of 30 degrees -45 degrees 90 degrees familiar to it,” which was familiar to it from clarification By HSM COXETER (which also inspired the Dutch artist MC Escher).
Today 3
In the middle of the day, the university stickers session was flooded with exhibitions on topics that include synchronization of the moon’s time; Piano seizure mathematics. Runs in the quadruple space; And a model to contain wildfire, the spread of smoke and the consequences of their general health.
During another session on mathematics and arts, Barry Sebra, a mathematics scientist from Minnesota, recently threw from “Gilbs Field(“The Yellow Field”), a painting by a Swiss artist Puhaus Max Bell coach.
Dr. Sebra said it may seem to be a solid painting of colors, but there is a faded pattern of contradictory points, or, specifically, squares. “Let’s take a look at an abstract version of Bell’s summary,” he said. “Can you discover what Bell is?”
By analyzing Dr. CIPRA, the artist is coded in the classic 3-DY-3-Square Magic Squa
The other privacy was that each row, column and diameter had five points (as in blossom or domino):
Dr. Sebra pointed out, “It seems that Bell has put up and solved a problem in the original mathematics and hidden it in the painting: Can you put the points inside each square of the magic box 3-3 so that there are exactly five points along the row, column and main diameter of the sub-system 9 In 9? “But it is not clear what the answer will be.”
Dr. Goldstein found the discovery of Dr. Sebra convincing. ““I am always excited when mathematics appear in a place where you do not expect,” she said in an email. “I often use these amazing links to get students who may be afraid of mathematics or get bored by seeing some of their beauty.”
Today 4
The last day offered a number of public events, including mini Mathematics Festival With training puzzles and games.
“Why are mathematics?” Alexandra Apton, 7, asked about an engineering mystery.
“Because we can calculate all the different methods that we put in shapes,” said her mother, Carolina Sarrenovska Ofon, Microsoft Director of Microsoft in Redmond.
In one general lecture, Ravi Vakil, a mathematics scientist in Stanford and the next president of the American Sports Association, explored at a time fun and deep.Mathematics from absurdity“
In another, Eugenia Cheng, a mathematician and pianist at the Chicago Institute College, addressed “Mathematics, Art, Social Justice”. One of her prominent messages: “Special mathematics is a framework to agree on things.” She sang some lecture alongside a recorded video for itself playing the piano.
There was a global presentation of a documentary film, “Create Paths”, and the second in “Black mathematicians trips“A series by director George CsicSary. (Broadcast On public television stations In February) Johnny Houston, a great advisor to the film, was an honorary professor at Elizabeth City State University in North Carolina. After the show, Dr. Houston noticed at the timing of the first show of 2025: In 1925, Elbert Frank Cox became the first African American – and the first black person in the world – to get a doctorate. In mathematics. “With exposure, experience and opportunity,” we can do as well as any mathematician in obtaining a doctorate degree. And beyond. “
The latest talks in that evening ended. By three o’clock in the morning the next morning, where some of the attendees went to the airport, two mathematicians were only heading to bed, but not before riding the elevator to the hotel hallway to request the reception from the late exit.