Comment by SyneRyder
1 day ago
Terence Tao and the apparently newly formed Association For Human Mathematics. The post is online-famous now for the line "Mathematicians did not ask for this work to be done."
https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/10/07/ahm-statement-on-o...
When I was a young man reading gauss, and thinking before I turned the page, I see a result here, something meaningful! and then I turn the page, and of course it is there. There is no shame in this.
A long time ago, another student of mathematics described it to me as climbing a mountain. No single step is hard, but you must make many steps to get to the point that no one else has made a step.