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Fields Medalist Timothy Gowers says most famous mathematics problems solved by LLMs so far have almost all been with counterexamples rather than proofs (Timothy Gowers/Gowers's Weblog)

Fields Medalist Timothy Gowers observes that LLMs have predominantly generated counterexamples—not formal proofs—for famous unsolved mathematics problems, highlighting a persistent gap between symbolic pattern-matching and rigorous deductive reasoning.

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Techmeme

Aug 16, 2026

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01 Most famous mathematics problems solved by LLMs so far have almost all been with counterexamples rather than proofs.

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