AI Can Solve Open Conjectures, But Has It Generated New Math Theories?
tak3sh8 · x · 2026-07-21
The author poses a fundamental question: over the past few months, AI has demonstrated the ability to perform frontier-level mathematics and even solve open conjectures. However, has this actually provided us with any genuinely new understanding, insights, theoretical frameworks, or mathematical objects?
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