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m0llusk 3 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: The cultural divide between mathematics and AI

> The last mathematicians considered to have a comprehensive view of the field were Hilbert and Poincaré, over a century ago.

Henri Cartan of the Bourbaki had not only a more comprehensive view, but a greater scope of the potential of mathematical modeling and description

coffeeaddict1 3 months ago [–]

I would also add Grothendieck to that list.

pathsjs 3 months ago | [–]

Grothendieck did not have a comprehensive view of mathematics, nor he ever claimed to. There are vast swathes of mathematics (e.g. PDE or probability) that never fell under Grothendieck's radar

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