'Math is not yet ready': Collatz conjecture may yield to AI in coming years
burny_tech · x · 2026-09-21
Math commentator jdlichtman invokes Erdős' famous line on the Collatz conjecture — "mathematics is not yet ready for such problems" — and argues that, with AI's rise, mathematics may become ready in the coming years, alongside his claim that the most important fields of math haven't been invented yet.
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