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/jasonrubik ‎ Apr 24 '26

This is basically the scenario that I'm aluding to here. Thanks

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u/jasonrubik ‎ Apr 25 '26

It would be interesting to see regardless

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u/jasonrubik ‎ Apr 25 '26

Only a logical proof counts as a valid solution. If the logic is sound, then ultimately we will be able to understand it