I have taught the Navier-Stokes equations, and when I do I make reference to this Millennium prize problem. It sounds like OpenAI just solved it. Terence Tao, the mathematician they interviewed, doesn’t love the way AI is transforming his field.
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/s...
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OpenAI Says It Has Cracked One of Math’s ‘Millennium Problems’
The company’s announcement is the most dramatic sign yet that artificial intelligence is fundamentally transforming the field of higher mathematics.
