Opus 5.5 agents dig through 12,000 pages of Gauss and Riemann notebooks, find lost physics
roydanroy · x · 2026-11-09
SalimAIi has been running Opus 5.5 agents over the notebooks of Gauss, Riemann, Hilbert, and Grothendieck — about 12,000 pages so far.
Best finding: Riemann's 1860 shock wave paper is famous for getting the energy part wrong, but his unpublished sheets at Göttingen contain the correct Rankine-Hugoniot conditions a decade or two before Rankine and Hugoniot, plus results usually dated 1906-1937, all in Riemann's own notation; a second sheet in another folder has the same physics. The author argues there are probably thousands of undiscovered results in the papers of history's greatest minds and they should all be made public and reviewed by AI.
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