AI disproves an 87-year-old conjecture, and Lean verifies the proof
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-07-22
AI has found a counterexample to an 87-year-old conjecture about polynomial maps, answering a question first posed by a German mathematician in 1939.
- Levent Alpöge, working at Anthropic, showed the conjecture is false.
- The proof was already checked in Lean, the formal verification language for mathematics.
- The post frames this as another sign that the human edge in mathematics is narrowing.
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