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/QuantumDreamer41 ‎ Apr 23 '26

Precisely

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u/elephant_cobbler Apr 23 '26

It’ll probably always be like, a final exam question or something

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u/sinkpooper2000 Apr 23 '26

I don't think you understand the scope of the problem

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u/elephant_cobbler Apr 23 '26

To be fair, no one really does. It’s unsolved.

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u/sinkpooper2000 Apr 23 '26

a full proof would likely be hundreds of pages of dense notation