AI Will Make Proofs Cheaper, Pushing Mathematicians Toward New Conjectures
denny_zhou · x · 2026-07-27
After reading recent posts about mathematical breakthroughs, the author’s daughter asked why so many famous conjectures are decades old.
The core argument is that as AI makes proofs cheaper, mathematicians will spend more time on the harder front-end work: asking deeper questions and formulating bolder new conjectures.
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