Mission

We are a group of mathematicians of all levels working toward community and equity in our beautiful subject. We hope to participate in a research environment that is human-motivated, egalitarian, and connects the days of the chalkboard to the days of Lean 4.

Mathematics in the age of AI has outgrown much of the academia built for the 20th century. We want to close that gap by connecting mathematicians from every background, and by keeping *people* at the center of our work.

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Figure 2. Egalitarianism as a probability distribution.

The name

Mathematicians use the term "without loss of generality" in a proof when they pick one case to work with and want you to know the choice doesn’t matter, because the same argument would still work for any other case.

So, if a statement works without loss of generality, it should work for more than one "thing": more than one set, more than one variable, more than one map, or, *more than one type of person*. We want the culture of research mathematics to work the same way.

WLOG abbr. without loss of generality

Theorem. Everyone is welcome in mathematics.

Proof. Left as an exercise to the reader. ∎

What we do

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Figure 4. A free group.

Mentorship and research opportunities

We offer research mentorship to undergraduates, in which they can work alongside mathematicians on real research problems. AI has done away with many of the "get your foot in the door" tasks for undergraduate researchers, and that limits opportunity. We hope to change that.

If you are a student looking for a first research experience, or a mathematician who wants to mentor, start with the form in Get involved.

Figure 5. The research process

Get involved

If you want to join, mentor, be mentored, help run a workshop, or just be part of our group, start with this form.

Interest form

Prefer email? hello@wlog-collective.org

Exercise 1. Fill out the interest form.

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Figure 6. An open set.
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