Why “conjecture” is being discussed
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>I'm confused, is your argument something like "It's too easy so AGI doesn't need to be able to do it"? Do you possess magnetoreception? a stupid pigeon can "see" the earth's ma…
by slidehero · Sep 4, 2026
You said: > For all you know, 90% of the proof could be useless, 8% would be writing out Shakespeare, and 1% abusing another bug in Lean. So you were implying the possibility of…
by asib · Sep 4, 2026
Tao is saying that there is very little insight from something like an LLM counterexample (e.g. Jacobian conjecture counterexample he investigated further on his blog) - you don…
by asib · Sep 3, 2026
A Proof of Conway's Refinement Conjecture
by m-hodges · Sep 2, 2026 · 4 points
This isn’t true in math; see the proof of Crouzeix’s conjecture which was done by GPT 5.6 Sol in response to a prompt from a neurosurgery resident who had no deep math backgroun…
by krull10 · Sep 2, 2026
The twin primes conjecture says that there are infinitely many primes p such that p+2 is also prime. The best existing result says that there exists some k < = 246 such that p,…
by csheehan10 · Sep 1, 2026
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In mathematics, a conjecture is a proposition that is proffered on a tentative basis without proof. Some conjectures, such as the Riemann hypothesis or Fermat's conjecture, have shaped much of mathematical history as new areas of mathematics are developed in order to prove them. Read more on Wikipedia