{"id":845527,"date":"2026-09-12T18:24:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T18:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/845527\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T18:24:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T18:24:29","slug":"ill-write-romance-novels-if-ai-solves-all-maths-problems-chinese-fields-winner-jokes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/845527\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019ll write romance novels if AI solves all maths problems, Chinese Fields winner jokes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Deng Yu, the 37-year-old Chinese mathematician who won the 2026 Fields Medal<\/a>, has a backup plan if artificial intelligence puts him out of a job.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, he wrote on social media that \u201cif AI can solve all maths problems, I\u2019ll go home and write my yuri novel\u201d.<\/p>\n

Deng is known to be a big fan of yuri, a genre of Japanese novels and comics that depicts intimate friendships and romantic relationships between women.<\/p>\n

In the post, which was later shared on another Chinese social platform, Deng wrote that AI has created \u201can atmosphere of restlessness and impatience\u201d in mathematical circles.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce this wavefront passes in the next year or two, the situation will gradually become clear. Mathematics will naturally adapt slowly, and a new ecosystem is gradually taking shape.\u201d<\/p>\n

Deng told the South China Morning Post on Wednesday that he was \u201cnot currently writing a yuri novel. That statement was entirely in jest.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t believe AI can develop to the point of solving all mathematical problems, at least not those I mentioned in my post,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Deng Yu, the 37-year-old Chinese mathematician who won the 2026 Fields Medal, has a backup plan if artificial…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":845528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,357777,184,181,507,234568,6793,357783,72799,357786,357785,357780,357782,357787,357779,357784,357781,357778,74],"class_list":["post-845527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-american-mathematical-society","tag-anthropic","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-arxiv","tag-austria","tag-buckmaster","tag-china-science-daily","tag-clay-mathematics-institute","tag-deng-yu","tag-euler-equations","tag-fields-medal","tag-grigori-perelman","tag-james-maynard","tag-julia-stadlmann","tag-levent-alpoge","tag-millennium-prize-problems","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=845527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/845528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}