Sometimes Being First Means Seeing the End Before Anyone Else
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- Jacob Tsimerman is driven by the goal of solving hard problems and being the first, not just the beauty of mathematics.
- He won the Fields Medal in 2026 after a career marked by competition success, graduate work at Princeton, and major contributions to the André-Oort conjecture and Hodge theory.
- Tsimerman uses techniques from one area of math in another to gain a competitive advantage.
- He is deeply concerned about AI surpassing human mathematicians, leading him to stop taking graduate students and shift his focus to AI safety.
- The article covers his journey from childhood math competitions to his current crossroads with AI and the future of mathematics.