SMRTR AIJul 16, 2026Live Science

Nobel Prize-winning physicist and team use Claude AI to solve decades-old math puzzle

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Nobel Prize-winning physicist Giorgio Parisi and colleague Francesco Zamponi used Anthropic's Claude AI to crack a math problem in physics that had stumped researchers for over a decade. The puzzle involved proving why two parameters in their 2014 "jamming" theory always add up to 1. In just 40 prompts, Claude provided a correct, publishable solution, revealing the answer was hidden within the equations themselves.

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