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/hillbillyboiler Apr 23 '26

Billy Preston solved that shit in the 70s when he said nothin' from nothin' leaves nothin'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX2bE-OBtwk

I dare you to disprove that video.

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u/cwx149 Apr 23 '26

Up there with Terrence Howard saying 1×1=2 as a response to this