How AI Is Upending the World of Mathematics
Episode Date: October 9, 2026Last month, OpenAI announced that it had produced an AI-generated proof for the Navier-Stokes problem, one of the most famous unsolved questions in ma...
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1276 episodes transcribedLast month, OpenAI announced that it had produced an AI-generated proof for the Navier-Stokes problem, one of the most famous unsolved questions in ma...
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