A Harvard mathematician and an AI model may have cracked an 87-year-old math problem

Artificial intelligence is increasingly being used as a collaborator in mathematical research rather than simply a computational tool.

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A young mathematician teamed up with a new AI model to tackle one of the hardest open problems in mathematics, and the result is causing a stir among mathematicians and AI researchers on X.

Levent Alpöge, a 33-year-old researcher at Harvard University, spent Sunday working with Anthropic’s Fable model to defeat the “Jacobian conjecture,” a notoriously difficult problem proposed by German mathematician Eduard Ott-Heinrich Keller in 1939.

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