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A Mathematician Used Claude Fable to Disprove the 87-Year-Old Jacobian Conjecture in a Few Hours - Glitchwire

By AI Desk

A Mathematician Used Claude Fable to Disprove the 87-Year-Old Jacobian Conjecture in a Few Hours - Glitchwire

Levent Alpöge, a number theorist at Anthropic, announced on X that he had found a counterexample to one of algebraic geometry's most notorious problems, crediting Fable as his collaborator.

During the World Cup final on Sunday night, mathematician Levent Alpöge posted a casually worded message on X that, if it holds up, settles one of the longest-standing questions in algebraic geometry
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