AI helped surface a counterexample to the 3D Jacobian Conjecture

pickover · x · 2026-07-20

AI-assisted math discovery: Levent Alpöge reportedly found a counterexample to the long-standing Jacobian Conjecture in 3D, using Claude Fable 5. The Jacobian Conjecture was posed in 1939 by Ott-Heinrich Keller and has been a major open problem for decades. The post frames this as a striking breakthrough in mathematical problem solving with AI assistance.

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