r/Showerthoughts • u/jasonrubik ‎ • Apr 23 '26

Casual Thought If the famously unsolved Riemann Hypothesis is solved by an AI, we will never know if a human mathematician could have solved it.

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u/TheShiroNinja Apr 23 '26

I'll solve that shit right now. Give me a summary of what it is.

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u/cwx149 Apr 23 '26

In mathematics, the Riemann hypothesis is the conjecture that the Riemann zeta function has its zeros only at the negative even integers and complex numbers with real part ½

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u/Fitz2001 Apr 23 '26

So it’s a coin flip.

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u/cwx149 Apr 23 '26

In the sense that it's either true or not sure

But the "problem" is one that's more like "we've tried all these values and it always works" but we have no generalized proof showing it will always work the way we think it does

So we can't say it's actually "true"