"Math then vs now" meme: from Riemann to ChatGPT-proved lemmas that are wrong
miniapeur · x · 2026-10-27
A viral "math then vs now" meme contrasts past math achievements (non-Euclidean geometry, sphere packing, the Riemann hypothesis) with today: ChatGPT-proved lemmas that are wrong, arXiv preprints every 3 minutes (99% garbage, 1% unreadable), ML re-proving things nobody understands, and proofs formalized in Lean that nobody reads.
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