Issue 2026-10-17 · Voices
Amjad Masad @amasad
Fascinating to see Mathematicians go through all the stages of grief — Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and Acceptance — in such a compressed window of time. We're at the tail end of depression and entering acceptance. [引用 @haider1]: Mathematician Terence Tao: "we're seeing the end of the romantic era of mathematics, the age of heroes. we're moving into an industrial era where math becomes large-scale, done in big teams like the other sciences" We're entering, rather unwillingly, a new era where exciting new things are possible, but some things are being lost
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