Fields Medalist Villani on OpenAI's Millennium Problem: 'A Cataclysm Like Math Has Never Known'
GregCook2011 · x · 2026-09-20
Fields Medalist Cédric Villani reacted to OpenAI's announced solution to a Millennium Prize Problem: he said he was 'shaken', described an 'end-of-history atmosphere', and called it 'a cataclysm like mathematics has never known'. The quote circulated via a French interview shared with an English translation by Andrew Curran.
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