Claude Fable produced a counterexample to the Jacobian Conjecture
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Re: Claude Fable produced a counterexample to the Jacobian Conjecture
#2Re: Claude Fable produced a counterexample to the Jacobian Conjecture
#3Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.
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#4he just...he tweeted it out
Re: Claude Fable produced a counterexample to the Jacobian Conjecture
#5he just...he tweeted it out
I almost felt bad adding {{Cite tweet ...}} to the wikipedia article
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#6The tweeter, Levent Alpöge, is a professional mathematician who works at Anthropic.
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#7Related:
Open Problems Solved by LLMs? A Survey of Verifiable Mathematical Discovery [pdf] -https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48953756 - July 2026
Solving 20 Erdős Problems with 20 Codex Accounts Running in Parallel - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48914646 - July 2026 (110 comments)
Re: Claude Fable produced a counterexample to the Jacobian Conjecture
#8Thanks for the mirror link OP!
Re: Claude Fable produced a counterexample to the Jacobian Conjecture
#9I just fed this to GPT 5.6 Sol:
Counterexample to Jacobian conjecture:
((1+xy)^3 z + y^2 (1+xy) (4+3xy), y + 3 x (1+xy)^2 z + 3 x y^2 (4+3xy), 2 x - 3 x^2 y - x^3 z): \C^3\to \C^3, has jacobian determinant -2, and sends (0, 0, -1/4), (1, -3/2, 13/2), and (-1, 3/2, 13/2) to (-1/4, 0, 0)
GPT wrote some SymPy code to check it. The response?"As written, this is an explicit counterexample to the Jacobian conjecture. I checked it using exact symbolic algebra.
I do not see an algebraic catch in what you typed. Unless a term or exponent differs from the intended expression, it appears to disprove the conjecture. This deserves serious independent checking rather than casual dismissal."
Waiting for someone to write the Lean proof.
Re: Claude Fable produced a counterexample to the Jacobian Conjecture
#10the conjecture held for 85 years and the counterexample was announced in a format that expires after seven days