Mathematician celebrates AI model cracking a problem he chased for a decade
ctjlewis · x · 2026-10-07
A mathematician on the team shares that witnessing an AI model make progress on the very math problem that drew him to the field a decade ago was the highlight of his career. The work involves a uniform zero-free strip, a construction in analytic number theory, signaling substantive research-level results from the model.
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