OpenAI claims its AI invented a new math technique, cracking a 35-year-old wave-focusing problem
141_1337 · reddit · 2026-10-27
Citing a preprint in OpenAI's math repo (16k stars), a Reddit post reports OpenAI's claim that its AI invented a new mathematical technique—local smoothing for the Euclidean wave equation—solving a 35-year-old mystery about wave focusing, then used the breakthrough to crack other decades-old problems on wave overlap, signal reconstruction, and the geometry of space. Independent verification by mathematicians is still pending.
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