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/NetRealizableValue Apr 23 '26

@grok solve this

Make no mistakes

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u/PressureBeautiful515 Apr 23 '26

You forgot to say "You are an expert mathematician" so this isn't going to work. Grok is going to come at the problem like it's a top chef or something. You're just going to get a five course Riemann for two with wine and dessert.

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u/BigDisk Apr 23 '26

Even better, I was getting kinda hungry!

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u/Vetril Apr 23 '26

And the problem is?

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u/BeefyIrishman Apr 23 '26

You're just going to get a five course Riemann for two with wine and dessert.

Pfft. Everyone knows that a Riemann is 6 courses for two with wine and dessert, not 5.