100+ Mathematicians React: OpenAI's Quasi-Riemann Result "Almost Unbelievable"
littmath · x · 2026-10-09
The Proofs and Prompts blog collects 100+ reactions from mathematicians to OpenAI's October 6 announcement. Tim Santens calls the Quasi-Riemann result "almost unbelievable," while Roman Sauer is stunned to find his own ergodic-theory trick — from papers on scalar curvature — appearing in OpenAI's solutions to wildly different problems 207 and 335. The consensus: mathematics as a research discipline faces a massive transformation.
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