Steven Strogatz
Mathematician and writer, Cornell University; Leiden Declaration signatory · as of 2026-10-07 · source
Widely read mathematician and science writer; signed the Leiden Declaration and compared OpenAI's claimed matrix-multiplication bound (ω ≤ 2.25, Oct 2026) to Bob Beamon's long jump.
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- OpenAI releases 722 AI-written math manuscripts (372 result families) claiming hundreds of open problems, incl. quasi-Riemann, Unique Games, Hodge for CM abelian varieties and free group factors ★★★★★
On 6 Oct 2026 (22:19 UTC) OpenAI published github.com/openai/math: 722 manuscripts in 372 result families, written by an unreleased internal model that was posed about 4,000 problems, at an average of ~3 hours of ChatGPT Pro thinking compute per result. The catalogue claims to settle a long list…
- Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics sets community norms for AI in maths (4,000+ signatories) ★★★
The Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics, dated 2 Jun 2026 (Zenodo DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20302944), came out of a September 2025 Lorentz Center meeting in Leiden. It asks for transparent disclosure of AI use, proper attribution, peer-review standards, author rights over…
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- Strogatz: matrix-multiplication exponent ≤ 2.25 is "like Bob Beamon's long jump" original ↗ Steven Strogatz @stevenstrogatz · x · 2026-10-06
Widely read mathematician (~118k views) singling out the ω ≤ 9/4 claim.
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