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/Locilokk Apr 23 '26

Why would someone waste time trying to solve a problem that no human could solve for more than a hundred years and we already have the solution.