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Jacob Tsimerman: The Last Generation of Mathematicians
Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

Jacob Tsimerman: The Last Generation of Mathematicians

8/10/20261:30:36
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Ten days after winning the Fields Medal — math's highest honor — Jacob Tsimerman joins to explain why he's leaving academia temporarily for OpenAI's AI safety team, and why he's grieving even as he does it. The conversation covers why math is one of the first fields being radically reshaped by AI, w