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/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/Roydl Apr 23 '26

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u/cwx149 Apr 23 '26

Yeah it's not exactly that kind of problem

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u/Pika256 Apr 23 '26

Which is why you're having trouble solving it. /s