Tag Archives: Yunqing Tang

Look, Mom, I pressed a button!

Posted on September 5, 2026 by Persiflage

I have recently heard a few extraordinary opinions about how mathematicians should use AI. One I would paraphrase as “professional mathematicians should never use AI for any problem not in their narrowly defined (by whom?) research program”, which seems ridiculous … Continue reading →

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Arbeitsgemeinschaft 2026

Posted on June 4, 2025 by Persiflage

The April 2026 Oberwolfach Arbeitsgemeinschaft will be on Arithmetic Holonomy Bounds and Applications to Irrationality, and in particular will discuss some of the results of this paper. For those who don’t know, the Arbeitsgemeinschaft (“study group”) is different from usual … Continue reading →

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A talk on my new work with Vesselin Dimitrov and Yunqing Tang on irrationality

Posted on June 16, 2024 by Persiflage

Here is a video of my talk from the recent 70th birthday conference of Peter Sarnak. During a talk one always forgets to say certain things, so I realized that my blog could be a good place to give some … Continue reading →

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Deciphering Quanta

Posted on March 23, 2023 by Persiflage

Sometimes it is claimed that Quanta articles are so watered down of mathematical content that they become meaningless. That presents a challenge: do I understand the quanta article on my own work? Here goes: New Proof Distinguishes Mysterious and Powerful … Continue reading →

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