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Timothy Gowers @wtgowers

@wtgowers

Mathematician. Professeur titulaire de la chaire Combinatoire au Collège de France. Also fellow of Trinity College Cambridge.

📍 Cambridge, England📅 Thu Jan 10 20:47:01 +0000 2019

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Timothy Gowers @wtgowers @wtgowers · Tue Sep 08 11:13:30 +0000 2026
I'm incredibly excited to announce the founding of the Mathematical AI safety Institute (MAISI) https://maisi.org/. AI safety needs more foundational theoretical development, and mathematicians have the skills and the mindset to help! MAISI is an independent institute with visiting positions ranging from 1 semester to 2 years. Our goal is to get mathematicians up to speed and working on research directions in AI safety as quickly as possible. There is important work to be done, and there is real progress to be made. YOU can help! Applications are open now! MAISI is aiming to hire 10-30 mathematicians to join us in the Bay Area by January, and scale up to 30-100 for September 2027. If you're a mathematician interested in channeling your skills toward the most important problem of our time, please apply today! https://maisi.org/apply
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Timothy Gowers @wtgowers @wtgowers · Sun Sep 06 14:05:39 +0000 2026
This is good. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/science/92-year-old-mathematician-apprentice.html
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Timothy Gowers @wtgowers @wtgowers · Sat Aug 29 17:56:04 +0000 2026
Better late than never I suppose. https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/aug/28/london-science-museum-cuts-links-with-bp-after-decades-of-partnership
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Timothy Gowers @wtgowers @wtgowers · Mon Aug 17 21:04:19 +0000 2026
Hi! I’ve been tweeting a lot about the state of math recently, but failing to really express the whole of my opinion. So I went and wrote about it long form. Here it is! Check out my first substack article :D https://garvvee.substack.com/p/no-country-for-mediocre-mathematicians?r=6ue6w3&utm_medium=ios
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Timothy Gowers @wtgowers @wtgowers · Fri Aug 14 08:54:11 +0000 2026
I'm used to politicians being innumerate, but I had hoped that Count Binface was different. Sad to see that he's just the same as all the others.
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Timothy Gowers @wtgowers @wtgowers · Wed Aug 12 10:03:48 +0000 2026
I've just written a blog post in which I discuss the question of whether current LLMs are better at some kinds of mathematics than others, with an emphasis on "current", given how quickly the situation is developing. Link in next tweet.
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Timothy Gowers @wtgowers @wtgowers · Wed Aug 12 10:03:48 +0000 2026
https://gowers.wordpress.com/2026/08/12/what-sort-of-maths-are-llms-good-at/
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Timothy Gowers @wtgowers @wtgowers · Sun Jul 26 17:01:33 +0000 2026
I went to the (great) workshop in Leiden that led to the Leiden Declaration, but ended up not signing it, as it didn't really represent my views, though it wasn't too different either, so the decision wasn't an obvious one. I've explained more in a blog post. Link in next tweet.
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Timothy Gowers @wtgowers @wtgowers · Sun Jul 26 17:01:33 +0000 2026
https://gowers.wordpress.com/2026/07/26/thoughts-about-the-leiden-declaration/
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Timothy Gowers @wtgowers @wtgowers · Fri Jul 24 14:27:14 +0000 2026
Leonardo Franchi, Fredy Yip and I recently solved a problem of Ben Green by showing that if A is an open product-free subset of the open interval (0,1), then A has measure less than 1/3, a bound that it is not too hard to prove is sharp. 🧵
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Timothy Gowers @wtgowers @wtgowers · Fri Jul 24 14:27:20 +0000 2026
I always like to bear in mind that the current technology is worse than it will ever be again. So I hope that before too long this kind of rough-and-ready autoformalization will be quicker and easier, but it's already good enough to be practical.
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Timothy Gowers @wtgowers @wtgowers · Fri Jul 24 14:27:21 +0000 2026
A caveat concerning that last point: our proof was elementary (in the sense of needing no machinery or advanced definitions). So my experience does not necessarily generalize to other areas of mathematics. Harmonic's Twitter handle is @HarmonicMath in case of interest.
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