AI’s solution to 87-year-old riddle takes mathematicians by surprise
- Levent Alpöge announced the solution on Xlevent via Twitter A mathematician has cracked an 87-year-old conundrum with the help of AI and announced the solution unceremoniously in a tweet.
- The finding is the most difficult mathematical problem yet solved by AI, say experts.
- Levent Alpöge at Harvard University wrote on X on 19 July that the Jacobian conjecture – which academics have spent decades trying to prove was true – is actually false, giving a tiny, 216-character counterexample as proof.
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- Levent Alpöge announced the solution on Xlevent via Twitter A mathematician has cracked an 87-year-old conundrum with the help of AI and announced the solution unceremoniously in a tweet.
- The finding is the most difficult mathematical problem yet solved by AI, say experts.
- Levent Alpöge at Harvard University wrote on X on 19 July that the Jacobian conjecture – which academics have spent decades trying to prove was true – is actually false, giving a tiny, 216-character counterexample as proof.
Sources: Newscientist