Mike's Notes
Fantastic lecture by Mathematician Terence Tao.
"The International Congress of Mathematicians is the most important and prestigious conference in the mathematical community and is hosted every four years by the International Mathematical Union. The 2026 congress, running from July 23 to July 30 in Philadelphia, features hundreds of invited talks, panels and presentations on cutting-edge developments across mathematics." - Simons Foundation
"What’s more, you don’t need to be a professional mathematician to read it. It should be mandatory reading for anyone thinking about how AI will affect mathematics, and strongly recommended for anyone who cares about AI’s impact on the world." - Gary Marcus
A link to the GitHub PDF of his talk is below. I will add the YouTube recording when it becomes available from ICM. There is a clip of bits of the talk in the meantime. Also a Lex Fridman interview from 2025 (3 hr).
Wonderful. ð
Resources
- https://teorth.github.io/tao-web/slides/age-of-ai-icm-2026.pdf
- https://www.mathunion.org/icm/icm-2026
- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGVe6BxyFHNVPhhm7avsmOjU6Htv3PxxU
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxAe4HJceFQ
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS9Lr43cIB4
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUkBz-cdB-k
References
- Reference
Repository
- Home > Ajabbi Research > Library >
- Home > Handbook >
Last Updated
06/08/2026
Mathematics in the Age of AI
Terence Tao was born in Adelaide, Australia in 1975. He has been a professor of mathematics at UCLA since 1999, having completed his PhD under Elias Stein at Princeton in 1996. Tao's areas of research include harmonic analysis, PDE, combinatorics, and number theory. He has received a number of awards, including the Salem Prize in 2000, the Fields Medal in 2006, the MacArthur Fellowship in 2007, the Crafoord prize in 2012, and the Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics in 2015. Terence Tao also holds the James and Carol Collins chair in mathematics at UCLA, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Australian Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. From 2020-2024, he served on the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
YouTube clip of conference talk to come
Lex Fridman Interview 2025
Terence Tao is widely considered to be one of the greatest mathematicians in history. He won the Fields Medal and the Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics, and has contributed to a wide range of fields from fluid dynamics with Navier-Stokes equations to mathematical physics & quantum mechanics, prime numbers & analytics number theory, harmonic analysis, compressed sensing, random matrix theory, combinatorics, and progress on many of the hardest problems in the history of mathematics.
Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #472
YouTube: 15/06/2025 3:14:33
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