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QuesnayJr a day ago

I haven't seen these claims, but all of the open problems that have been solved so far have been in the category of "humans could have solved them, but didn't". This doesn't diminish the significance of the results, but it does mean there's still work for mathematicians to do other than glorified prompt engineers.

This specific counterexample really is trivial. There's nothing to cite. People have wasted hours and hours on a question whose answer you could give as a homework problem in Calc II.

snarkconjecture 12 hours ago | parent [-]

Checking the counterexample is a Calc II problem. Finding it was beyond the efforts of the best algebraic geometers for almost a century.