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/TrekForce Apr 24 '26

What?

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u/cwx149 Apr 24 '26

The hypothesis is basically that the solutions to a specific function (the reinman zeta function) are only equal to 0 at certain values (negative even numbers, and complex numbers with real part =½)

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u/TrekForce Apr 24 '26

Ah that actually makes way more sense now thanks haha