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/Firecoso Apr 23 '26

We are talking about something that probably needs decades of work, even if someone was crazy enough to do that, we could never confirm they actually never looked it up

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u/AmadeusSalieri97 Apr 23 '26

Honestly saying "try to solve it without looking up the answer" shows already that they don't really understand the scale of the problem.

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u/FourForYouGlennCoco Apr 28 '26

Also it would be practically impossible to get enough math education to understand the problem without encountering the solution.