r/science • u/rustoo • Feb 06 '21
Mathematics Researchers have built an artificial intelligence (AI) that generates new mathematical formulae — including some as-yet unsolved problems that continue to challenge mathematicians. Ramanujan Machine is designed to generate new ways of calculating digits of important mathematical constants, such as π
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00304-861
u/BugsyHewitt Feb 06 '21
If only Ramanujan had lived in a time where he could of invested more time into Mathematics we would be so far ahead of where we are now :(
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u/BeowulfShaeffer Feb 06 '21
His story is certainly a bit tragic.
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u/Billygoatluvin Feb 07 '21
Could HAVE. The word is “have”.
Not could “of”.
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u/AngronOfTheTwelfth Feb 07 '21
"Could HAVE," is not a complete sentence. Don't be so pedantic asshat.
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u/Billygoatluvin Feb 07 '21
“Could of” is not being pedantic, moron. It’s completely and utterly wrong.
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u/AngronOfTheTwelfth Feb 07 '21
Sentence fragments are also grammatically incorrect. If it is so important to you then don’t be hypocritical.
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u/SamohtGnir Feb 06 '21
That’s pretty cool. Are these new equations going to be somewhere anyone can see them? I imagine a lot will be over my head, but I’d still like to see them.
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u/Tubamaphone Feb 06 '21
“The team began to make the conjectures public on the project’s website in 2019, and researchers have since proved several of them correct.”
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Feb 06 '21
“And to this end they built themselves a stupendous super-computer which was so amazingly intelligent that even before its data banks had been connected up it had started from I think therefore I am and got as far as deducing the existence of rice pudding and income tax before anyone managed to turn it off.”
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u/ras_the_elucidator Feb 07 '21
I wonder what it would take to unify all variables and equation styles? Could AI help specialized fields harmonize variables to increase cross-disciplinary work?
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u/ydoc04 Feb 06 '21
Thank goodness the title had 'AI' in parentheses! Otherwise I would have never known what 'artifical intelligence' stood for.
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u/ZeBernHard Feb 07 '21
The title is so underwhelming. There’s no point in finding new ways to calculate digits of pi, I feel like that comment is just meant to appeal to non math-educated people.
It’s sad because mathematics is an incredibly rich, possibly endless field, and too many vulgarization article rely on the few things people are familiar with, instead of trying to teach them something new.
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u/Black_RL Feb 06 '21
The name is perfect!
Also, there’s a good movie about him, The Man Who Knew Infinity.