AnalysisScienceJuly 20, 2026

Claude Fable 5 disproves 87-year-old Jacobian Conjecture

A mathematician used Claude Fable 5 during a World Cup final to produce a hand-checkable counterexample to the Jacobian Conjecture, an open problem since 1939. The conjecture states that a polynomial map with constant non-zero Jacobian determinant must have a polynomial inverse.

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