A digestion of the Jacobian conjecture counterexample
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A digestion of the Jacobian conjecture counterexample
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#3The introduction to this piece was easy to follow, but as soon as he got into recapitulating it with algebra he lost me (because I'm bad at math). But he includes the GPT5 prompts for his conversation, which are easier to follow:
https://chatgpt.com/share/6a5fdc7a-d6f8-83e8-bbea-8deb42cfed...
Re: A digestion of the Jacobian conjecture counterexample
#4The introduction to this piece was easy to follow, but as soon as he got into recapitulating it with algebra he lost me (because I'm bad at math). But he includes the GPT5 prompts for his conversation, which are easier to follow: https://chatgpt.com/share/6a5fdc7a-d6f8-83e8-bbea-8deb42cfed...
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#5Related:
Claude Fable produced a counterexample to the Jacobian Conjecture
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48973869
Human mathematicians are being outcounterexampled
Re: A digestion of the Jacobian conjecture counterexample
#6The introduction to this piece was easy to follow, but as soon as he got into recapitulating it with algebra he lost me (because I'm bad at math). But he includes the GPT5 prompts for his conversation, which are easier to follow: https://chatgpt.com/share/6a5fdc7a-d6f8-83e8-bbea-8deb42cfed...
Also note the timestamp: he started working on this thread a few hours after the tweet.
Re: A digestion of the Jacobian conjecture counterexample
#7The introduction to this piece was easy to follow, but as soon as he got into recapitulating it with algebra he lost me (because I'm bad at math). But he includes the GPT5 prompts for his conversation, which are easier to follow: https://chatgpt.com/share/6a5fdc7a-d6f8-83e8-bbea-8deb42cfed...
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People are upvoting this because Tao is a celebrity.
Re: A digestion of the Jacobian conjecture counterexample
#8Okay. So what does this overturn, intuitively? Can we no longer assume that functions are differentiable at certain points, or something?
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Honest question. Does asking "make no mistakes" actually change the output? Does it make mistakes if you don't bother to ask for no mistakes? Is it just to make the human feel more secure?