Buckmaster may crack Navier-Stokes; OpenAI claims 100-page blowup proof
FateOfMuffins · reddit · 2026-09-08
A Reddit thread spotlights a possible breakthrough on Navier-Stokes by mathematicians Tristan Buckmaster and Levent Alpoge, with Terence Tao weighing in.
- Tao: the methods face no obvious obstacle to extending to full Navier-Stokes, with a non-negligible chance of eliminating the forcing term entirely, though huge technical difficulties remain
- Drama: OpenAI's math team claims an internal model produced a 100-page proof of finite-time blowup for the forced Navier-Stokes equations
- If confirmed, this approaches Millennium Prize territory
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