Why Hardest Open Math Problems Stay Unsolved: Folklore Marks Them Inaccessible
IgorCarron · x · 2026-10-19
Mahdi argues that established math culture is fundamentally incapable of solving the biggest open problems: the hardest ones get marked as "inaccessible" by folklore, so nobody actively thinks about them—and they never get solved even if a way exists. IgorCarron's quote-tweet "And they fall..." hints this barrier is now being broken (implicitly by new methods such as AI).
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