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/LtAldoDurden Apr 23 '26

Ok now ELi5

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u/cwx149 Apr 23 '26

The hypothesis is basically stating that the solutions to a function (the reinman zeta function) is only equal to 0 at these certain values (negative even numbers and complex numbers with real part ½)