What does artificial intelligence have to offer mathematics?

March 28, 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Mānoa Campus, Physical Sciences Building, Room 217

Come see Jordan Ellenberg, the John D. MacArthur Professor of Mathematics, Guggenheim Fellow, and NYTimes Best-selling author of “How Not to be Wrong” and “Shape”. Ellenberg is renowned for his creative approaches to number theory and for his unique ability to communicate mathematics to broad audiences. This talk will be accessible to a broad audience without any university-level background in mathematics. The interaction of machine learning with math has attracted a lot of attention, because mathematics is in some respects a closed world with well-defined rules (like chess, and unlike poetry-writing) but also a domain where success is ultimately judged by human assessments of ingenuity and importance, not rigid criteria (like poetry-writing, and unlike chess). Can machines prove theorems? Can they generate mathematical ideas? I'll talk about some of my own work with collaborators from DeepMind, using a protocol called FunSearch, and what I've learned from this work about the current and near-future relevance of AI to mathematical practice.


Ticket Information
Free

Event Sponsor
Mathematics, Mānoa Campus

More Information
Daniel Erman, 734-478-8588, erman@wisc.edu,

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