Peter Cameron's Blog

I just read a powerful article about AI in mathematics, “The Enshittification of Mathematics”, by Fenner Tanswell, from the Mathematical Intelligencer. You can find it here.

This is why we need philosophers of mathematics!

In February this year I went to the AAA108 conference in Vienna. This was the 108th meeting of the Arbeitstagung Allgemeine Algebra. I was obviously going to talk about graphs on groups, but I thought I should take the time to see how the ideas would transfer to ar...

The news this week that OpenAI had released a document listing hundreds of big problems which its robot claims to have solved (including the Boone–Higman conjecture and the Unique Games Conjecture) was the main topic of conversation over coffee. I strongly suspect that AI will replace the weather as a conversational gambit, at least among mathematicians; this has happened in ...

I am sorry that the blogroll has disappeared.

I had been meaning for some time to update it and strip out the dead links. When Astronony Picture of the Day changed its web address I decided I would at least update that one. So I did, and found that the entire list had gone.

Some research suggested that WordPress has changed its policies so that you can’t p...