100+ Mathematicians Publish Gut Reactions to OpenAI's Math Breakthroughs
keunwoochoi · x · 2026-10-10
In response to OpenAI's October 6 announcement, Proofs and Prompts collected first reactions from over 100 mathematicians as a snapshot of community sentiment.
- Tim Santens called the results "almost unbelievable", noting Quasi-Riemann was thought to be "complete science fiction", and argued mathematics as a discipline faces massive transformation.
- Roman Sauer was stunned to find his ergodic-theory trick (replacing a manifold with a measurable foliated object) appearing in OpenAI's solutions to two very different problems (207 and 335).
- The page remains open for new reactions, signed by name only, without affiliation or career stage.
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