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Number theorist Arul Shankar said the work shows AI systems can move beyond assisting mathematicians and begin generating genuinely original ideas.
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Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 20 May 2026
But as any game theorist will tell you, rationality is an assumption, not a guarantee.
—Frank Holmes, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
In its system card for Claude Mythos, for instance, Anthropicresearchers noted that the powerful AI exhibited a strange fondness for the British cultural theorist Mark Fisher.
—Frank Landymore, Futurism, 30 Apr. 2026
While reading Toward an Architecture, the 1923 manifesto of Swiss-French architect and theorist Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, better known as Le Corbusier, Fuller encountered a table of wind resistance diagrams.
—Bill Gourgey, Popular Science, 29 Apr. 2026
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Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 20 May 2026
But as any game theorist will tell you, rationality is an assumption, not a guarantee.
—Frank Holmes, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
In its system card for Claude Mythos, for instance, Anthropicresearchers noted that the powerful AI exhibited a strange fondness for the British cultural theorist Mark Fisher.
—Frank Landymore, Futurism, 30 Apr. 2026
While reading Toward an Architecture, the 1923 manifesto of Swiss-French architect and theorist Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, better known as Le Corbusier, Fuller encountered a table of wind resistance diagrams.
—Bill Gourgey, Popular Science, 29 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for theorist
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There was Asher Durand, master of the winsome glade; John Frederick Kensett, poet of still waters; and, above all, Thomas Cole, the philosopher-king of landscape, with whom an 18-year-old Church arranged to study privately.—
Susan Tallman,
The Atlantic,
13 June 2026
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More than 600 years ago, the Arab philosopher Ibn Khaldun observed a pattern that has repeated itself throughout history.—
Judah Taub,
semafor.com,
11 June 2026
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That was a driving question as reporters Carrie Teegardin and Danny Robbins set out to examine how the state was responding to practitioners touting unproven and disproven health treatments.—
Carrie Teegardin,
AJC.com,
17 June 2026
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In the 1960s and 70s, feminist historians viewed these transformations instead as the loss of female authority at the hands of unsafe, overly interventionist male practitioners; female midwives were not permitted to use instruments.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
16 June 2026
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