Mathematicians clash over AI proof hype: 'bigger than Newton' claim called absurd
LucaAmb · x · 2026-10-27
- Abhishek Saha (Queen Mary University of London) called a recent AI-generated math result "ten times, perhaps 100 times as momentous as the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem"; Joshua Gans (University of Toronto) went further: "probably the biggest day of scientific advancement in history."
- @curiouswavefn pushed back hard, calling claims that it dwarfs Newton's Principia, Darwin, Gödel and Einstein "absurd" — "we collectively are going insane."
- The fight over how much hype AI-generated proofs deserve is heating up in math and AI circles.
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