Mathematicians validate OpenAI's proof of Brennan's conjecture: correct but lengthy
robleclerc · x · 2026-10-19
Four mathematicians — Ilia Binder, Oleg Ivrii, István Prause, and 2010 Fields Medalist Stanislav Smirnov — examined OpenAI's proposed solution to Brennan's conjecture, a longstanding complex-analysis problem from 1978. In a manuscript submitted October 16, 2026 and listed on arXiv October 19, they report the AI-generated argument is correct but unnecessarily lengthy; they distill its core ideas, produce a substantially shorter proof, and formulate a stronger result. Commentators see this as evidence of a coming golden age of mathematics rather than any 'math apocalypse'.
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