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AI Helps Disprove 87-Year-Old Mathematical Conjecture
Human Progress
“A mathematician has cracked an 87-year-old conundrum with the help of AI and announced the solution unceremoniously in a tweet. The finding is the most difficult mathematical problem yet solved by AI, say experts. Levent Alpöge at Harvard University wrote on X on 19 July that the Jacobian conjecture – which academics have spent decades […] The post AI Helps Disprove 87-Year-Old Mathematical Conjecture appeared first on Human Progress.
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