Math community calls for Fields Medals over Navier-Stokes work and consequences for OpenAI
eigensteve · x · 2026-09-10
Math user @gammaofzeta calls the Navier-Stokes controversy an inflection point, arguing Martínez-Zoroa and Córdoba deserve the Fields Medal, that the Clay Institute could split the prize 80/20 with Buckmaster and Alpöge or restate the problem without external forces, that OpenAI should face severe consequences if accusations prove true, and urging the math community to independently reorganize how it works, with some abandoning publish-or-perish and AI-proof races.
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