Self-Propelled Math

All these developments in AI & ML are helping math also to develop itself!

They are identifying patterns in math which would have been difficult for humans.

They have detected connections to bridge two areas of knot theory that mathematicians had long speculated should be related.

Knot theory is a branch of Topology. Topology is the study of properties of geometric objects which do not change under any deformation. In the 1980s a profound and unexpected relationship was discovered between a type of quantum theory and the mathematical theory of knots.

They have used an AI called DeepMind to identify math problems that were well-suited to machine learning.

So math has become as all-purpose-assistant.

How well one uses math for a certain purpose depends on that person’s creativity & understanding of mathematics itself.

Math has become a general tool for analysis of huge amounts of data, irrespective of which field is generating that data.

A situation is fast developing to a point where only those who understand math & data analysis can handle & analyse these huge amounts of data