AI-driven democratization of math allows high school level students to contribute to frontier mathematics through AI tools and formal proof assistants, removing the traditional requirement of years of education and a PhD before attempting research contributions.

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Terence Tao

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Now it's quite possible at the high school level, or whatever, that you could get involved in a math project and actually make a real contribution because of all these AI tools, Lean, and everything else.

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Terence Tao – How the world’s top mathematician uses AIDwarkesh Patel
Created: 8/12/2026, 6:05:48 PM

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