UMich physicist: AI now solves topology problems that took months of expert help
IgorCarron · x · 2026-10-16
Gabriele Carcassi, a physicist at the University of Michigan, shares that technical math blockers in topology that once required months of begging mathematicians for help are now resolved by AI in about two minutes. IgorCarron's repost — "And they fall..." — frames it as expert gatekeeping collapsing.
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