Turning Yang-Mills existence and mass gap into a formal conjecture is AI math's ultimate test
geoffreyirving · x · 2026-09-18
Geoffrey Irving argues that the ultimate Millennium challenge for AI-assisted mathematics will be fully formalizing the Yang-Mills existence and mass gap conjecture. The problem's mathematical complexity makes even a machine-checkable statement extremely hard, and he sees it as a definitive test of AI's limits in formal mathematics.
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