Google Search AI Fumbles Ax–Grothendieck Explanation, Slammed by Math Researcher
BlancheMinerva · x · 2026-11-11
Math researcher BlancheMinerva mocks Google Search's AI overview for botching the Ax–Grothendieck theorem (injective polynomial maps C^n→C^n are surjective). She debunks its "proof" of a key point: the statement requires infinitely many FOL sentences, jointly satisfiable iff every finite subset is — and those finite subsets concern large finite fields, where the claim trivially holds. "Of course it's true in a finite field, that's what finite means!"
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