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Rado Kirov @radokirov.bsky.social · 14d

Calling Bay Area math enthusiasts interested in weekly sessions doing rigorous foundational mathematics the modern way - with computer-verified proofs in Lean.

(An experiment in rigorous math education outside traditional academia)

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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · 15d

I started a crowdsourced meta-project to list all the other crowdsourced mathematical research projects that are currently active and seeking participants: mathoverflow.net/questions/50...

List of crowdsourced math projects actively seeking participants

I believe that with the advent of modern online collaboration platforms (such as Github), proof assistant languages (such as Lean), and (potentially) AI tools, there are many emerging opportunities...

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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · Sep 2

A first proof-of-concept outcome for the erdosproblems.com - OEIS linkage project: with a useful assist from AI, the OEIS was used to locate a proof in the literature for an Erdos problem that was previously marked as "open". mathstodon.xyz/deck/@tao/11...

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Here is a first proof-of-concept demonstration of an actual outcome for the erdosproblems/OEIS linkage project. There are a number of Erdos problems relating to irrationality of specific series. I ask...

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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · Sep 1

Thomas Bloom and I are launching a crowdsourced project to link up Thomas's erdosproblems.com site with the #OEIS, by systematically calculating the various integer sequences associated with the Erdos problems and crosschecking them against the OEIS database: terrytao.wordpress.com/2025/08/31/a...

Erdős Problems

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SLMath (MSRI) @mathmoves.bsky.social · Aug 29

SLMath (MSRI) announces three new research initiatives in Berkeley, California: Call for Proposals for AxIOM month-long programs to begin in Spring 2027, and applications for Summer 2026 PROOF and LATTICE independent research groups. Learn more at www.slmath.org/news-and-eve....

Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute (SLMath)
- AxIOM Month-Long Programs: Call for Proposals for Spring 2027 and beyond
- PROOF and LATTICE summer research for teams: Call for Applications for Summer 2026

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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · Aug 18

I wrote an op-ed on the world-class STEM research ecosystem in the United States, and how this ecosystem is now under attack on multiple fronts by the current administration: newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/im-an-awar...

I’m an award-winning mathematician. Trump just cut my funding.

The “Mozart of Math” tried to stay out of politics. Then it came for his research.

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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · Aug 8

I have some related posts on this at mathstodon.xyz/@tao/1149568... and mathstodon.xyz/deck/@tao/11...

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The current administration in the US has, through various funding agencies such as the NSF and NIH, has recently suspended virtually all federal grants to my home university, UCLA (including my own p...

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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · Aug 8

#IPAM (the institute for pure and applied mathematics) is facing a critical shortfall for operating expenses due to an unexpected suspension of NSF funding www.ipam.ucla.edu/news/nsf-fun... . Donations for emergency continuity of operations funding can be made at

giving.ucla.edu/Campaign/Donat

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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · Jul 19

My thoughts on the crucial importance of methodology on self-reported AI performance on mathematics competitions, and my policy on commenting on such reports going forward: mathstodon.xyz/@tao/1148814...

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It is tempting to view the capability of current AI technology as a singular quantity: either a given task X is within the ability of current tools, or it is not. However, there is in fact a very wid...

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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · Jul 8

The #SalemPrize for 2025 is now accepting nominations until September 15th. www.ias.edu/math/activit... (I am the chair of the Scientific Committee for the prize.) A bit more information in my blog post on this: terrytao.wordpress.com/2025/07/08/s...

Salem Prize

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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · Jun 20

If you click on the link and go to the second slide you will see the second part of the sentence (after the ellipsis ...), which mentions the tropic of Cancer.

Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · Jun 20

A new #CosmicDistanceLadder post to mark the summer solstice, on how astronomical measurements, from the time of Eratosthenes to the modern day, rely on the tireless (and often unsung) efforts of many careful and precise data collectors. www.instagram.com/p/DLG6a_WIWyb

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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · May 31

I have just launched a "Lean companion" to my textbook "Analysis I": github.com/teorth/estim... . This gives a Lean translation (or paraphrasing) of the various definitions, theorems, and exercises in the textbook into Lean.

Further discussion at terrytao.wordpress.com/2025/05/31/a...

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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · May 26

A video on an actual formalization task from my Polynomial Freiman Ruzsa (PFR) project, which is sufficiently tricky (and sufficiently far from existing training data of current models) that one still has to largely formalize these proofs by "hand": www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uLX...

Formalizing a proof in Lean by hand

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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · May 20

A new #CosmicDistanceLadder post on how the distance ladder can also be used to measure cosmic durations, as well as cosmic distances. www.instagram.com/p/DJ2ra2soG4j

The first page of the instagram post on how we measure cosmological durations.

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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · May 17

A third video in my occasional series on #Lean4 formalization workflows, this time focusing on how relying extensively on #GitHubCopilot fares against standard "epsilon delta" type problems in analysis. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1ix...

Formalizing a proof in Lean using Github Copilot only

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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · May 13

A followup to my previous video, in which I now see how #Claude and #o4mini do at formalizing a slightly different proof of the same algebraic implication, after being given the initial informal and formal proofs as reference. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZr5...

Formalizing a proof in Lean using Claude and o4

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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · May 11

As an experiment, I tried to use automated tools to formalize (in as "mindless" a fashion as possible) a one-page human written proof into Lean. You can watch the results here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyyR...

Formalizing a proof in Lean using Github copilot and canonical

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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · May 1

DARPA's "Exponentiating mathematics" (expMath) program, which is launching a challenge to develop and evaluate "AI collaborators" for assist in decomposing and formalizing informal mathematical proofs, is now taking short abstract proposal submissions: sam.gov/opp/869c8d73...

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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · Apr 14

After 200 days, we finally have 100% completion on the primary goal of the Equational Theories Project to formally resolve >22 million implications between 4694 equational laws, using modern proof assistants, collaboration platforms, and automated theorem provers. teorth.github.io/equational_t...

The dashboard of the project reports a 100.00% completion rate.

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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · Apr 10

A new #CosmicDistanceLadder post, on intriguing hints from the DESI survey data that suggests that the cosmological constant (aka "dark energy) might not, in fact, be constant after all. www.instagram.com/p/DIP0yy5oDUu

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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · Mar 24

A new #CosmicDistanceLadder post on why lunar and solar eclipses tend to come in pairs (for instance, the solar eclipse next week is paired with the lunar eclipse from last week). www.instagram.com/p/DHkS3EcA40L

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · Mar 21

Cosmic Distance Calibration xkcd.com/3066

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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · Mar 17

A new #CosmicDistanceLadder post, on how the recent lunar eclipse from the vantage point of the Earth becomes a solar eclipse from the vantage point of the Moon: www.instagram.com/p/DHR1tuWonDR/

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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · Mar 14

Lunar eclipses, such as the one yesterday, were one of the earliest pieces of scientific evidence that the Earth was basically a round sphere, already known to Aristotle: regardless of the position of the eclipse in the light sky, the shadow of the Earth on the Moon was always circular.

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