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blog — Proofs and Prompts — 10 Sep 2026

Open Letter about the Mathathon

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A coalition of current and former Caltech mathematicians Note: The Mathathon organizers have published a response, available here. On October 30th, 2026, Caltech will begin hosting the Caltech Mathathon, a math hackathon in which participants are encouraged to solve open research problems by prompting LLMs. Two prominent AI companies, Anthropic and OpenAI, will supply participants […]

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