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fookeryesterday at 8:04 PM1 replyview on HN

This misses a very important point.

It’s not just about out remembering, it’s about breadth.

Mathematicians are all about depth. It’s pretty much impossible to become an expert in more than one narrow field of mathematics.

AI is happily applying techniques and abstractions across these silos.


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soupspacestoday at 12:52 AM

Euler would like a word. Maybe it's our institutions.