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Okay, from the actual linked article it seems that their partial result was finding blowup in Euler equations, which seems pretty big. I wonder how the other attempts went. Did…
by Kotlopou · Sep 9, 2026
Go to a busy main street. Ask 1000 different individuals if Terrence Tao rings a bell. If 5% or less can answer you who Tao is, it is safe to say that Tao is obscure. I'd be ver…
by TrackerFF · Sep 9, 2026
I don’t know much about NS problem or Euler problem anyway. Can’t tell how significant it is to go from Tristan approach to OpenAI’s results. It is 10k agents after all with a m…
by karmasimida · Sep 9, 2026
I agree with Occam. That 100x step up from using 100 agents for Euler to 100_000 agents for Navier-Stokes, in a single day seems a bit sus. I also think this is not ethical beha…
by ozgung · Sep 9, 2026
I’m not a mathematician so take this with a grain of salt. Apparently terry tao commented that the approach used for the Euler paper can “probably” be used for solving NS but it…
by jansport123 · Sep 9, 2026
OAI's side of the story is that they discovered the approaches (and indeed solved problems - Euler equations vs NS equations) differed. They then offered Buckmaster lead authors…
by sobellian · Sep 9, 2026
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Leonhard Euler was a Swiss polymath who was active as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, logician, geographer, music theorist and engineer. He founded the studies of graph theory and topology and made influential discoveries in many other branches of mathematics, such as analytic number theory, complex analysis, and infinitesimal calculus. He also introduced much of modern mathematical terminology and notation, including the notion of a mathematical function. He is known for his work in mechanics, fluid dynamics, optics, astronomy, and music theory. Euler has been called a "universal genius" who "was fully equipped with almost unlimited powers of imagination, intellectual gifts and extraordinary memory". He spent most of his adult life in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and in Berlin, then the capital of Prussia. Read more on Wikipedia