100+ mathematicians react to OpenAI's 'unbelievable' math results
keviv9 · x · 2026-10-09
OpenAI's October 6 announcement shook the math community. The Proofs and Prompts blog collected 100+ signed reactions:
- Tim Santens: the Quasi-Riemann result felt like science fiction; mathematics as a discipline faces massive transformation.
- Roman Sauer: his ergodic-theory trick from papers on macroscopic scalar curvature (with Sabine Braun, extended by Hannah Alpert) unexpectedly appeared in OpenAI's solutions to unrelated problems 207 and 335. He argues mathematicians must radically expand what a mathematician is rather than defensively narrow focus.
- Reactions include general reflections and problem-specific comments; submissions stay open for another week.
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