Mathematician Steven Strogatz used ChatGPT on his walk to grasp the claimed Navier-Stokes singular solution
stevenstrogatz · x · 2026-09-09
Renowned mathematician Steven Strogatz shared that he chatted with ChatGPT while walking to work to make sure he understood what the claimed singular solution to Navier-Stokes would mean physically, then posted a lightly rewritten tweet thread the model generated, highlighting the surprising parts. The post is also a signal of how hot the claimed Navier-Stokes result has become in math circles — and of a famous mathematician using an LLM to parse frontier math.
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