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		m0llusk 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The cultural divide between mathematics and AI > The last mathematicians considered to have a comprehensive view of the field were Hilbert and Poincaré, over a century ago. Henri Cartan of the Bourbaki had not only a more comprehensive view, but a greater scope of the potential of mathematical modeling and description

coffeeaddict1 9 months ago [–]

I would also add Grothendieck to that list.

pathsjs 9 months ago | [–]

Grothendieck did not have a comprehensive view of mathematics, nor he ever claimed to. There are vast swathes of mathematics (e.g. PDE or probability) that never fell under Grothendieck's radar

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