What happens to mathematics when AI becomes an oracle?

Mathematician Steven Strogatz co-authored a new book, Big Math: The Hidden Codes That Run Our World, with his colleague Alex Townsend. The book explores the impact of AI and other technologies on mathematics, as 'big math' becomes increasingly complex and difficult for humans to understand. Strogatz, an award-winning communicator, has written four popular books on mathematics and has studied various topics including chaos theory, geometry, and synchronicity. He and Townsend, a numerical analysis and deep learning expert, began working together after Strogatz was assigned to mentor him. The book is the result of their collaboration, which started with Townsend's course on the top 20 algorithms of the 20th century.