Papers

Write-ups that take the survey's findings as input and ask what they imply for how much mathematics society should buy.

Working papers

Cotton, P. (2026). Misaligned or Undersupplied? Pure Mathematics in the Age of LLMs. Working paper, SSRN 7452281 · PDF · tex. Twenty-five Fields medalists have declared artificial intelligence and mathematics misaligned. The wait between a mathematical result and its use was in large part transmission: a result reached a use only when someone along the way knew both the problem and the theorem, and a language model can now be that person at every use. In a minimal model of reach, adoption cost, and lag, the value of a marginal result rises by a multiple and the wedge between social and private returns widens. Opens with a pure mathematics class of six and closes with a reply to the declaration.