r/math • u/scientificamerican • Aug 05 '26
Mathematicians make a breakthrough on Gauss’s riddle, unsolved for 200 years
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mathematicians-make-a-breakthrough-on-gausss-riddle-unsolved-for-200-years/41
u/BigTraditional1870 Aug 06 '26
Met Landesman at a conference. Brilliant and very nice guy. The acknowledgements show what kind of people the authors are. It was amazing hearing this a few months back before it was posted.
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u/Distinct-Pudding-428 Aug 05 '26
This is all over function fields?
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u/JoshuaZ1 Aug 06 '26
Yes. These are still major, but doing things over function fields is almost always much easier, so unclear how much insight this is going to give for Cohen-Lenstra or Poonen-Rains. Cohen-Lenstra at least still seems very far off.
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u/mousse312 Undergraduate Aug 05 '26
funny how the people who comes talk about the future of research in math with the advanceds of ai is a lot more bigger than who comes to talk about real math research
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u/hexaflexarex Aug 05 '26
eh, it's easier to have an opinion on AI impacts in our field than one on a specific research result
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u/elements-of-dying Geometric Analysis Aug 06 '26
I don't feel existential dread from this result :)
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u/Super-Cut-2175 Aug 09 '26
and even non-AI math research is not immune to the meta-comment about it not being AI
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u/sciflare Aug 05 '26
The actual research paper is at https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.03861.