2021-12-02

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A breakthrough paper is published about using artificial intelligence to do mathematics - we discuss it with DeepMind's Alex Davies and Professor Marcus du Sautoy.

DeepMind - https://deepmind.com

DeepMind blog on this topic - https://deepmind.com/blog/article/exploring-the-beauty-of-pure-mathematics-in-novel-ways

Nature article on the topic - https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-03593-1

Article from The Conversation by Geordie Williamson, who worked on the project - https://theconversation.com/mathematical-discoveries-take-intuition-and-creativity-and-now-a-little-help-from-ai-172900

Marcus du Sautoy - https://www.simonyi.ox.ac.uk

The Creativity Code - book on Amazon - https://amzn.to/3Dmxak2

Collaborator Geordie Williamson - https://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/geordie/

Collaborator Marc Lackenby - http://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/lackenby/

Collaborator Andras Juhasz - https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/people/andras.juhasz

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