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The dark art of maths and the AI revolution | Letter

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Bev Littlewood reminds us that mathematics has been the prime driver of the rise in AI, in response to an editorialYou report in your leader that some mathematicians feel discomfiture at the AI solution to a Navier-Stokes problem (The Guardian view on AI v mathematicians: humans are still vital to the field, but tech firms refuse to see that, 20 September). I fear that they have been hoist by their own petard: mathematics, after all, has been the prime mover of the AI revolution.As a somewhat lo

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