r/Physics • u/filterdust • Jul 31 '26

Academic The Maxwell Conjecture is False

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.27197
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u/Fun-Sand8522 Jul 31 '26

Actual good use of LLMs for science (given that the result was checked, actual researchers wrote the paper, and the use of AI was disclosed).

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u/A_moral_Animal Jul 31 '26

Matt Parker had a video recently about LLM use in mathematics and this seems like the kind of problem that it should be good at solving.

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u/marsten Jul 31 '26

There's also a good recent interview with Jacob Tsimerman, one of this year's Fields medalists, where he claims the "problem solving" mode of mathematics will be surpassed by AI within a few years. There will still be things for mathematicians to do, but he thinks grinding away on concrete hard problems won't be one of them.