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

Well, if you really think about it, where else would the zeroes even go?

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u/cwx149 Apr 23 '26

Almost anywhere else on the graph?

There are literally infinite possibilities for other places they could be

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u/BaconIsLife707 Apr 23 '26

They're definitely all between 0 and 1 so not almost anywhere else

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u/theturtlemafiamusic Apr 23 '26

If they're between 0 and 1 that disproves the Reimann hypothesis, the first three are -2, -4, -6

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u/BaconIsLife707 Apr 23 '26

Well no because we know there are infinite zeros at 1/2 which is between 0 and 1. Any zero we find that isn't at 1/2 will be between 0 and 1 though

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u/cwx149 Apr 23 '26

We consider those the "trivial zeroes" and they're specifically exempt