Comment by tptacek
1 day ago
You think Alpoge just had the solution for the Jacobian Conjecture in his back pocket, just sort of waiting to deploy at his next gig?
1 day ago
You think Alpoge just had the solution for the Jacobian Conjecture in his back pocket, just sort of waiting to deploy at his next gig?
He could have been paid by Anthropic to run a brute-force computer search. The counterexample looks short enough that, given a portion of Anthropic’s computing power and a sufficiently smart algorithm, it could be found by brute force.
Is your premise here that no other mathematician was ever equipped or motivated to do a "brute-force computer search"? Or is it instead that you think Anthropic dedicated an entire data center's worth of compute to the task of speculatively trying to disprove a conjecture that has stood for over 80 years?