Terence Tao: OpenAI's quasi-Riemann result is the biggest advance in 50 years
jracine22 · reddit · 2026-10-18
A viral tweet screenshot quotes mathematician Terence Tao on OpenAI's breakthrough on the quasi-Riemann Hypothesis. He confirms it as a major breakthrough — "the biggest advance on the subject in 50 years," producing a massive new zero-free region via a very clever new technique. Tao says it combines three or four existing ideas "arranged in a very unusual way," something he believes no single living mathematician would have come up with alone — though the right group locked in a room might have reached it after lots of trial and error.
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