Zvi: "simultaneously the biggest day in mathematical history, and also felt kind of slow"
Zvi Mowshowitz @TheZvi · x · 2026-10-07 · ★ · archived
Ironic reaction from a widely read AI commentator (~11k views).
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Posted 00:42 UTC, quoting Andrew Curran: "Today is simultaneously the biggest day in mathematical history, and also felt kind of slow, okay, sure, 90 of the top 500 open problems in math, but what's news?" ~11k views. The '90 of the top 500' figure comes from Lech Mazur's matching against the LLM-ranked proofatlas.ai list (see 2026-10-07-aisafetymemes-90-of-top-500).
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Today is simultaneously the biggest day in mathematical history, and also felt kind of slow, okay, sure, 90 of the top 500 open problems in math, but what's news?
Quoting @AndrewCurran_: levent 'obviously the most significant moment in mathematical history.'
'mathematical history features a lot of incredible developments, like the invention of proof, zero, or the computer, and on the great problems our progress has been over timelines measured in decades or https://t.co/G8CbDL5nnv
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