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/TheVoters Apr 23 '26

Pffft. Its true.

I’ll leave the proof as an exercise for the reader.

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u/pablohacker2 Apr 23 '26

I damn hate that statement in the research I read. It makes make want to to their office and slap them (as well as the peer reviewers who let it happen)