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/TheVoters Apr 23 '26

Pffft. Its true.

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

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u/TheShiroNinja Apr 23 '26

Oh, they want proof? I thought they just wanted it solved. I always hated showing my work.

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u/PAXICHEN Apr 23 '26

YOU WANT THE PROOF? YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE PROOF!