There's never been a better time to go into math
Channel: 3Blue1Brown
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[0:00] Well, let's talk about it.
[0:01] It feels like the whole math world is on fire
[0:03] talking about AI in math.
[0:05] I have been thinking about
[0:06] this for a very long time.
[0:07] So I put up this post last week soliciting
[0:09] questions that people had on the matter,
[0:11] and a lot of what I saw were
[0:12] comments from students,
[0:14] maybe PhD students or undergrads who had been
[0:16] planning on going into math or adjacent
[0:18] theoretical fields who were basically just saying,
[0:21] what am I supposed to do?
[0:22] What am I supposed to do next
[0:24] when the future seems so uncertain?
[0:25] You know there's a lot of fear that math is dead
[0:28] or math is solved or even if you don't believe
[0:30] those that whatever the thing that math will
[0:33] become is is unpleasant or not what you wanted
[0:35] to do.
[0:36] I've also talked to a lot of different
[0:38] professors who are essentially throwing up
[0:40] their hands saying what am I supposed to tell
[0:42] my students like how am I supposed to advise
[0:44] them in this moment and I thought for this
[0:46] video I would focus on one specific comment
[0:48] that I saw that felt emblematic of so many others.
[0:52] A math PhD here, just tell me what to do tomorrow.
[0:55] So I would make the case, and I want
[0:56] to see if you agree with me on this,
[0:58] that there has never been a
[0:59] better time to go into math,
[1:00] that there's never been a
[1:01] better time to fund math,
[1:03] and that maybe the most radical change
[1:05] that we'll see in this moment is a
[1:07] reframing of how we assign academic credit,
[1:09] but that the actual institution of math and
[1:12] what it is remains surprisingly unaffected,
[1:14] even in a hypothetical future where