Fields Medalist Deng Yu says he'll quit math and write romance novels if AI solves all of it
Polymarket · x · 2026-09-12
Per Polymarket, Fields Medalist Deng Yu announced he would retire from mathematics and write romance novels if AI becomes capable of solving all math problems. The remark lands as prediction markets price the odds of AI labs announcing solutions to Millennium Prize Problems, highlighting how top mathematicians view AI's rapid progress in math.
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