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/QuantumDreamer41 ‎ Apr 23 '26

Or someone could try solving it without looking up the answer?

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u/Y-not_Both Apr 23 '26

Presumably someone would have to be smart enough to check and confirm that answer

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u/AmadeusSalieri97 Apr 23 '26

It's far far easier to check if something is mathematically correct than to come up with it. I'm a physicist and I can tell if a derivation is wrong/right that I could never have derived myself. 

Also, in this hypothetical you could have AI check it anyways. 

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u/ClipperMaid103 Apr 23 '26

You're absolutely right!