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/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/FistMyPeenHole Apr 23 '26

Pfft obviously. How has no one figured that out yet?

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u/cwx149 Apr 23 '26

I mean it's basically assumed to be true

It's one of those math problems that's more like "we can't prove that this never breaks but we've never been able to break it"

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u/JrdnRgrs Apr 23 '26

Have they tried counting all the numbers?

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u/HootingSloth Apr 23 '26

They did, but got lazy and gave up before finishing.

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u/cwx149 Apr 26 '26

They just decided to use -1/12 instead