Eight years'-caliber math results land in eight weeks: zeta bounds, prime gaps, FLT formalization
Zulfikar_Ramzan · x · 2026-09-14
The past 8 weeks of mathematics feel discontinuous: lower-bound improvements on the ζ critical line, several bounded prime gaps results, non-sofic groups, Connes rigidity, the formalization of Fermat's Last Theorem, and a proposed Navier-Stokes singularity. By pre-AI standards, several would be result-of-the-year or even result-of-the-decade caliber — the compression in time is extraordinary, echoing the view that the last 8 months mark a historic transformation of mathematics.
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