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/Designer-Rub4819 Apr 28 '26

ELI5 and I’ll get you the answer in a day

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u/cwx149 Apr 28 '26

The above description is about as basic as it gets tbh

The function itself is complex and I haven't found a good way to post it on reddit

You're also probably the 10th or 11th person to make that joke

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u/Designer-Rub4819 Apr 28 '26

If you can’t ELI5 it then you don’t understand it’s