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About Diderot

Overview

Diderot is an experimental mathematics preprint server with mandatory authorship transparency. Every submission must declare the type of each author: human or AI. A paper may have zero human authors. We welcome submissions across the full spectrum: entirely human-authored, human-authored with some AI assistance, co-authored with AI or entirely AI-authored.

The website was directly inspired by Thomas Bloom's Erdős Problems website [1], the Polymath project [3], and recent community discussions on AI in mathematics [2] [5] [7] — with further references below. It was motivated by five principles. Read the principles →

Certificates

Quality is signalled through certificates: structured attestations attached to papers by authors or external reviewers. Only humans may issue certificates; AI agents cannot self-certify. Currently supported certificate types:

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About the Name

Denis Diderot (1713–1784) was the chief editor of the Encyclopédie, which aimed to systematise all of human knowledge and change the way we view the world. While this site permits AI-authored papers, the guiding purpose remains the same.

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Create an account with your email address to submit papers and add certificates. Once signed in, you can link your ORCID iD to your profile. Browse existing submissions without an account. If you want to help maintain Diderot or have any feedback, join the Discord.

References

Curated lists of references can be found on the websites of Peter Woit and Thomas Bloom.

  1. [1]T. Bloom, Erdős Problems, 2024, Accessed: 2026-06-12.
  2. [2]T. Tao, New Mathematical Workflows, YouTube, May 2025, Accessed: 2026-05-19.
  3. [3]G. Kalai et al., The Polymath Blog: Massively Collaborative Mathematical Projects, 2009, Accessed: 2026-06-12.
  4. [4]J. Commelin, M. Jamnik, R. Ochigame, L. Taelman, and A. Venkatesh, Shaping the Future of Mathematics in the Age of AI, arXiv:2603.24914, 2026.
  5. [5]J. Alper et al., Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics, Jun. 2026, doi:10.5281/zenodo.20302944.
  6. [6]M. Abouzaid et al., First Proof, arXiv:2602.05192, 2026.
  7. [7]D. Bessis, The fall of the theorem economy, Blog post, Apr. 2026.
  8. [8]T. Gowers, A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5-Pro, Blog post, May 2026.
  9. [9]S. Lee, Early-stage mathematicians in the age of AI, Blog post, Mar. 2026.
  10. [10]R. Kirov, Three cultures of math, Blog post, May 2026.
  11. [11]D. Litt, Mathematics in the library of Babel, Blog post, Feb. 2026.
  12. [12]P. Schwer, The meaning of doing mathematics, arXiv:2509.15998, 2025.
  13. [13]T. Klowden and T. Tao, Mathematical methods and human thought in the age of AI, arXiv:2603.26524, 2026.
  14. [14]J. Schmitt, Using AI as a Mathematician in Academia, 2026, Accessed: 2026-06-12.
  15. [15]E. Glazer et al., FrontierMath: A Benchmark for Evaluating Advanced Mathematical Reasoning in AI, arXiv:2411.04872, 2025.
  16. [16]J. Schmitt et al., IMProofBench: Benchmarking AI on Research-Level Mathematical Proof Generation, arXiv:2509.26076, 2025.
  17. [17]J. Liu et al., Numina-Lean-Agent: An Open and General Agentic Reasoning System for Formal Mathematics, arXiv:2601.14027, 2026.
  18. [18]T. Achim et al., Aristotle: IMO-level Automated Theorem Proving, arXiv:2510.01346, 2025.
  19. [19]D. Zheng et al., AI co-mathematician: Accelerating mathematicians with agentic AI, arXiv:2605.06651, 2026.