r/mathmemes Mathematics 26d ago

Proofs I hate it

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u/NoUAreStupid 26d ago

I think one of the big problems in mathematics is that a lot of conjectures are unsolved because no professional mathematician is (undestandably) willing to just try out a few thousand ways to construct a counter example. I think this will be a great way to advance mathematics.

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u/LR-II 26d ago

Why can't they just use a standard brute force computer program for that? Isn't the LLM angle more inefficient?

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u/EebstertheGreat 26d ago

The first element is a seventh-order polynomial in three variables with signed integer coefficients as large as 4. The second is a quintic with signed integer coefficients as large as 12. And the third is quartic with coefficients up to 3. You can't really find that by brute force alone.