AI has transformed maths — this is how we got here The story of how maths came to run the world, and created the artificial-intelligence models that might surpass human mathematicians. By Anil Ananthaswamy

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-03627-6 Big Math: The Hidden Codes That Run Our World Steven Strogatz & Alex Townsend Little, Brown and Company (2026) When I was studying electrical engineering in India in the 1980s, a professor asked our class: “Why do short- and medium-wave radios produce a crackling sound, or static, when a scooter goes past, regardless of the station you are listening to?” None of us knew the answer.