The world's largest mathematician gathering was convened in Seattle from January 8 to January 11. This year, this program broke out of a traditional kaleidoscope -like panoramic. The official theme “Age of AI Mathematics” was set by Bryna KRA, chairman of the American Mathematics Association, which holds an event in cooperation with 16 partner organizations. In one configuration, a joint mathematics meeting or a meeting called JMM is held more or less every year for more than a century.
Dr. KRA intended the theme of AI as a “morning call”. “AI is in our lives, and it's time to start thinking about how it will affect your education, students, and your research,” she said in an interview with the New York Times. 。 “What does it mean to have AI as a co -author? These are kinds of questions we need to work on.”
On the evening of the second day, Meta's chief AI scientist, Yann Lecun, gave a keynote lecture titled “Mathematical Disorders on the Human Level AI.”
“The current state of machine learning is to smoke,” he told many chorts during the lecture. “Don't worry about humans. Don't worry about trying to reproduce mathematicians and scientists. You can't even reproduce cats.”
He argued that the “large -scale world model” would be a better bet to improve and improve the technology instead of a major language model that moves chatbots. In an interview after the lecture, he said in an interview after the lecture, “It has a world mental model that predicts the results of the action, so you can infer and plan.” But he acknowledged that he had a disability -some mathematical problems, their solutions are invisible anywhere.
Deirdre Haskell, a director of Toronto's Mathematics Research Institute and McMaster University, said, as she remembered, thanked Dr. Lecun's memories. Perhaps it has “artificial intelligence”. “
In a lecture, Lecun pointed out that artificial general information or AGI (a machine with human -level intelligence) was wrong. He said, “I have no general intelligence.” “We are very specialized.” He said that the preferred terms in the meta were “advanced machine intelligence” or AMI. “We pronounce it as” Ami “.
Dr. Haskell had already sold the importance of “a major problem of using AI to perform mathematics and understanding AI mathematics.” Use the AI system to generate and verify more complex mathematical research and proof.
For Kenny Banks, an undergraduate student at the North Carolina University Greens Boro School, who participated in the JMM, artificial intelligence is not appealing as a tool for searching for search. “I think the mathematics that people love now is driven by human curiosity. I don't think the fact that computers are interesting is not the same as what humans find interesting,” he said by email. 。 Nevertheless, he regretted that he had not narrowed down AI -related discussions on the itinerary. “The theme of Math + AI was definitely interesting. It didn't work with everything I planned!”
Here are some other highlights of Seattle MATHALOOZA.
First day
At 6:00 pm on Wednesday, January 8, after the ribbon cut and award ceremony, the attendees were engraved at the magnificent reception of the exhibition hall. The draw is a) free food, B) It was an exhibitioner booth occupied by publishers and providers of various machine products. At the booth 337, Robert Fasauer sold an impressive dice inventory, including the new “5 player gorfast dice”. They roll to decide who will start first. Dr. Fasauer, based in Arizona, was also a co -organizer of the art exhibition of the conference, and provided two ceramic sculptures, his own “Huang curve helicoid” and “cuvic squeeze.”
The submission of art, which has won the exhibition, was a “Saddol monster” with wool, copper, and nylon, a wool, copper, and nylon, by singing Don, a mathematical artist who acquired a Ph.D. Don in Greenwich in Connecticut. 。 In physics …
… And “Twisted” and “UNTWISTED” created using the iPad vector graphics app by Rashmi Sunder-Raj, a mathematical artist in Waterloo, Ontario.
Rebecca Lin, a doctor of Doctor MIT, has been honored for the laser cut sculpture of the paper titled “DISINTEGRATING”.
Second day
On Thursday, John Wild, a musician at Magil University in Montreal, was invited to a session on applied mathematics to discuss the “circle arrangement count” on a plane. Considering a specific constraint, there are one way to draw one circle, three ways to draw two circles, 14 ways to draw 14 methods, 173 methods, and 16,951 methods. (The list of six circles is not yet calculated.) Dr. Wild was surprised to know that this research was related to 3D printing. In other words, how each printer head can trace each trace arc while avoiding collisions. “I was tickled,” said Dr. Wild.
In a session on mathematics and art, Susan Goldstein, a mathematician at St. Mary College, Maryland, gave a lecture on her Poan Callow Ruth Craft Project. This project, which was named after Henri Poan Kare, a French mathematician, included an old jeans patchwork denim skirt. As she explained in the article, “After turning the noodles in different patterns, I settled on the tiles of the pornecare model on the double curve plane with a 30º 45º 90 º triangle.” Classic Geometer HSM Coxter (also affected Dutch artist MC Escher).
Third day
At noon, the undergraduate poster session was crowded with explanations on topics, including monthly synchronization. Piano tuning mathematics. Loop in 4D space. And a model of the impact on the containment of wildfids, the spread of smoke, and the impact on public health.
In another session on mathematics and art, Barry Cypra, a mathematician from Minnesota, is a painting by Max Bill, a Swiss artist who has been trained in Bauhaus (“Yellow Field”). I gave a lecture on.
Dr. CIPRA said that it might look like a solid canvas, but there is a contrasting dot or more accurately square pattern. “Let's take a look at the abstract version of the building summary,” he said. “Can you find what the bill is doing?”
Dr. CIPRA's analysis encoded the artist in a 3×3 classic square in painting. This is a square sequence of a number that forms a logic puzzle equal to 15 with each line, columns, and diagonal total.
Another specificity was that each line, columns, and diagonal lines had five Pips (like dice and dominoes).
Dr. CIPRA said, “It looks like the building has raised the original mathematics problem and solved it, and hidden in the painting. Pip is placed on each of the 3X 3 magic square, and each of them is exactly five. Can you have a pip? I said. “But it's not clear what the answer will be.”
Dr. Goldstein discovered that Dr. Cipura's discovery was persuasive. “I'm always excited when mathematics appears in a place where you don't expect it,” she said by email. “I can use these amazing connections to see the beauty of students who are afraid or bored.”
Day 4
On the last day, many public events were provided, including practical puzzles and mini mathematics festivals with games.
“Why mathematics?” Aleksandra Upton, 7, asked for a geometric puzzle.
“We can count all the ways to put together,” said her mother, Carolina Salnowska Tong, who was a software engineering manager in Microsoft, Washington.
In a public lecture, Rabi Vicil, a Mathematician of Stanford and an emerging President of the American Mathematics Association, explored a playful and profound “graffiti mathematics.”
Another, Uginia Chen, a mathematician and pianist at the Chicago Art Institute, spoke “Mathematics, Art, and Social Justice.” One of her remarkable messages: “Pure mathematics is a framework to agree with things.” She sings some lectures along with her recorded video playing the piano. I did it.
And there was a world premiere of the second documentary film “Creating Pathways” in the “Journey of Black / Mathematician” series by director George Chasichree. (Broadcast on a public television station in February.) The senior film advanced consultant was Johnny Houston, an emeritus professor at Elizabeth City State University in North Carolina. After the screening, Dr. Houston said about the timetability of the 2025 premiere. In 1925, Elbert Frank Cox became the first African American and the world's first black. In mathematics. Dr. Houston said, “We can do the same as mathematicians who can get a doctorate, depending on his own journey and many black mathematics journey. And beyond that.
The last lecture was involved in that night. By 3:00 am the next morning, when some attendees headed to the airport, two mathematicians were just heading to bed, but there was no before riding an elevator and riding a hotel lobby. It was.