littmath's profile picture. Assistant professor (of mathematics) at the University of Toronto. Algebraic geometry, number theory, forever distracted and confused, etc. He/him.

Daniel Litt

@littmath

Assistant professor (of mathematics) at the University of Toronto. Algebraic geometry, number theory, forever distracted and confused, etc. He/him.

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I want to explain in down-to-earth terms what this paper is about, since it ultimately boils down to what I think are some really concrete and fundamental questions. 1/n

littmath's tweet image. I want to explain in down-to-earth terms what this paper is about, since it ultimately boils down to what I think are some really concrete and fundamental questions.  1/n

Yeuk Hay Joshua Lam, Daniel Litt: Algebraicity and integrality of solutions to differential equations arxiv.org/abs/2501.13175 arxiv.org/pdf/2501.13175 arxiv.org/html/2501.13175



Something I really enjoy about posting puzzles on here is watching people figure out the answer in real time. Very rare to see people on social media say "I was wrong, here's why," and it's very heartening when it happens.


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Daniel I have to go in for work today. You can't do this to me.


I find it so disorienting chatting with frontier LLMs about fancy math stuff. The deduction in the last sentence below is nonsense; I suspect there is not a single living human who knows what "Green-Lazarsfeld generic vanishing theory" is and who would make the same error.

littmath's tweet image. I find it so disorienting chatting with frontier LLMs about fancy math stuff. The deduction in the last sentence below is nonsense; I suspect there is not a single living human who knows what "Green-Lazarsfeld generic vanishing theory" is and who would make the same error.

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Very excited for 2026 to be the year of “AI for science [by which I mean moderately interesting results announced with the breathlessness of a 2022 cryptocurrency shill]”


If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever. That’s why I’m asking for $50M in Series A funding for my new startup, BootStompr, which will revolutionize


Reminded of a previous round of von Neumann discourse:

the rise and fall of clone John von Neumann, as per tweets of people who think we should clone him

littmath's tweet image. the rise and fall of clone John von Neumann, as per tweets of people who think we should clone him
littmath's tweet image. the rise and fall of clone John von Neumann, as per tweets of people who think we should clone him
littmath's tweet image. the rise and fall of clone John von Neumann, as per tweets of people who think we should clone him
littmath's tweet image. the rise and fall of clone John von Neumann, as per tweets of people who think we should clone him


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Let him who has not parroted stochastically cast the first stone


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