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AI is both the best and worst thing to ever happen to mathematics

Our best equations for describing the way fluids move were first written down two hundred years ago and ever since nobody has been able to answer a simple question about them – do they sometimes blow up?

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Two centuries after the foundational equations for fluid motion were first formulated, mathematicians still lack an answer to whether these equations can “blow up,” a term that denotes a sudden emergence of infinite velocity in part of the fluid. The article highlights this unresolved question as a central challenge in the field, emphasizing that despite the equations’ long history, their potential for singular behavior remains unknown.

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