Buckmaster Admits No Math Contribution, Calls for Fields Medal to Go to Martínez-Zoroa
stevenstrogatz · x · 2026-09-10
Continuation of the EL PAÍS story: Martínez-Zoroa acknowledges they may never have resolved the conjecture without AI — "it's possible we might never have gotten there" after years of drop-by-drop progress.
- Buckmaster explicitly admits his team "made no mathematical contribution whatsoever," only implementing Córdoba and Martínez-Zoroa's method with AI and letting the system find the right construction.
- He has publicly called for "the most important prize in mathematics" — the Fields Medal — to go to Martínez-Zoroa.
The credit dispute at the heart of the human-vs-AI collaboration story continues.
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