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A neurosurgery resident cracks a two-decade-old conjecture in sixteen hours

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A neurosurgery resident with no specialized mathematical training cracked the two-decade-old Crouzeix conjecture with a sixteen-hour autonomous GPT-5.6 Sol run, verified by Crouzeix himself.

Reported metric: 16 hours

Reporting date: 2026-08-13 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to August 13, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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A model raises a Riemann-hypothesis lower bound from 41.6% to 67.2%

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A neurosurgery resident cracks a two-decade-old conjecture in sixteen hours
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Reporting date: 2026-08-13
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-08-13-a-resident-cracks-a-two-decade-conjecture
Claim: A neurosurgery resident with no specialized mathematical training cracked the two-decade-old Crouzeix conjecture with a sixteen-hour autonomous GPT-5.6 Sol run, verified by Crouzeix himself.
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- Welcome to August 13, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-august-13-2026
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