In the second episode of this four-part series, Elizabeth Loew, Executive Editor, and Christopher Tominich, Senior Editor, both in the Mathematics book group at Springer Nature, dive into how mathematicians are using AI in their research. First, Elizabeth provides an overview of a survey conducted at the American Mathematical Society’s Joint Mathematics Meetings in January. She reveals the ways in which undergraduates, graduates, and researchers implement AI into their scholarship, whether by learning about new topics or polishing up research articles. In addition, Elizabeth discusses AI’s greatest strengths and weaknesses in the field—while AI can accelerate discovery, it also relies on probability to solve problems, leading to false or inaccurate results. To close out the episode, Chris chats about changes in scholarly publishing in mathematics due to AI research and the challenge of book publishing in such a fast-moving subject area.

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