{"id":245626,"date":"2026-10-19T05:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T10:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/exclusive-with-fields-medalist-maxim-kontsevich"},"modified":"2026-10-19T05:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T10:05:07","slug":"exclusive-with-fields-medalist-maxim-kontsevich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/exclusive-with-fields-medalist-maxim-kontsevich","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive with Fields Medalist Maxim Kontsevich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/exclusive-with-fields-medalist-maxim-kontsevich.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Fields Medalist gave AI the text of his mathematics lecture.<\/p>\n<p>He didn\u2019t ask it to solve a problem.<\/p>\n<p>But the AI agent unexpectedly suggested a better mathematical definition.<\/p>\n<p>Maxim Kontsevich, winner of the 1998 Fields Medal, says the experience astonished him.<\/p>\n<p>In a new interview, he describes how AI is beginning to contribute not just calculations and proofs, but ideas about how mathematics itself should be formulated.<\/p>\n<p>#ArtificialIntelligence #mathematics<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/exclusive-with-fields-medalist-maxim-kontsevich\">Continue reading \u201cExclusive with Fields Medalist Maxim Kontsevich\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Fields Medalist gave AI the text of his mathematics lecture. He didn\u2019t ask it to solve a problem. But the AI agent unexpectedly suggested a better mathematical definition. Maxim Kontsevich, winner of the 1998 Fields Medal, says the experience astonished him. In a new interview, he describes how AI is beginning to contribute not [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2229,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}