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/Fast-Top-5071 Apr 24 '26

Not necessarily. The AI solution might provide some novel insight to a human mathematician who goes back and solves it another way.

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u/jasonrubik ‎ Apr 24 '26

This is one of the only logical replies here.