"Breaking Maths News: what's going on with millennium maths problems?" | Stand-up Maths

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video essay from matt parker, shot inside disney world, in which he talks about openAI's proposed solution for a navier-stokes condition as part of the millennium prize problems. the lock screen consists of a frowning, inquisitive-faced parker, looking right at the camera, with the park entrance visible behind him. to his left is a banner that says "BREAKING MATH NEWS!" and to the right is the generated visualization from the openAI paper, with tightening spirals of fluids moving upward and inward in a sort of column colored in light blue, dark blue, and orange.
as a non-mathy person, i've been getting a surprising amount of enjoyment from this guy's videos.

in this one, he tackles the supposed solution to the navier-stokes problem in the "millennium problems" set (https://www.claymath.org/millenni...) that was proposed by openAI on september 8th:
https://www.nytimes.com/2026...

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