Navigating mathematics on the web can feel quite mentally taxing. We scroll through lists of papers on arxiv, follow citation trails, and piece together ideas step by step. While this works, it is far removed from how mathematicians actually think (there is a reason we are so attached to blackboards!)
I am interested in how modern technologies can be incorporated into one's process in order to address this and related issues such as:
the core heuristic behind a piece of mathematics is often hard to access without direct conversation with an expert
crossing disciplinary boundaries can feel prohibitively difficult
AI can act as a powerful brainstorming partner, but insights quickly become buried in long linear chats
A meta-web is a graph-based second brain which
organises mathematical ideas so that they can be explored visually, relationally and more intuitively
provides a space to record and revisit intuition
makes connections across areas of mathematics more visible
distils and preserves insights from AI conversations
The graph at the top of this page is a prototype I built which visualises core elements of a few Chatgpt conversations I had.
If you would like to build your own, download the four files here and follow the simple instructions here.
