Fenner Stanley Tanswell: ‘The Enshittification of Mathematics’ (The Mathematical Intelligencer)
Fenner Stanley Tanswelllink.springer.com
Why it matters
An article by a philosopher of mathematical practice in The Mathematical Intelligencer, listed by Tao on Oct 12 among the pieces worth reading on mathematics and AI. Its text has not been read by us.
Summary
Not read. On 2026-10-13 link.springer.com returned only a JavaScript “Client Challenge” page to our fetcher (HTML and PDF), so we saw neither the abstract nor the first page, and this file contains no quotations and no account of the argument. What is verified, from Crossref and Unpaywall metadata for DOI 10.1007/s00283-026-10566-7: the title is “The Enshittification of Mathematics” (Tao’s list drops the article “The”), the sole author is Fenner Stanley Tanswell, the journal is The Mathematical Intelligencer (Springer), it was published online on 30 September 2026, and Unpaywall lists it as closed access with no repository copy. Crossref gives no abstract, volume or pages. Tanswell’s profile at the Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, describes his work as “on proofs, mathematical knowledge, virtues, and formalisation”. That the article concerns AI is inferred only from its place on Tao’s list of pieces “on math and AI”. To do: read it through a library or an author copy and fill in the argument.
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Source: link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00283-026-10566-7
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