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AI’s solution to 87-year-old riddle takes mathematicians by surprise
Mathematicians have been trying to prove the Jacobian conjecture for nearly a century, but now the Claude Fable 5 AI has apparently found a counterexample that disproves it
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The Jacobian conjecture, a long-standing problem in mathematics, has been disproven by an AI solution. This development comes after nearly a century of mathematicians attempting to prove the conjecture.
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