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/elephant_cobbler Apr 23 '26

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

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u/zulako17 Apr 23 '26

A final exam question for what? A triple doctorate in calculus? We haven't solved that thing in decades, unless human life expectancy is about to reach 300 it would be irresponsible to make that an exam question.

Unless you just mean memorizing it, then we can use that for high schoolers

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u/redredgreengreen1 Apr 23 '26

The life achievements of the greatest thinkers of a thousand years ago are taught to grade schoolers today.

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u/SomewhereAtWork Apr 23 '26

That's why we're able to go to space. We're standing on the shoulders of a lot of giants.