Mathematician: 'Game Is Over' After OpenAI's Claimed Solution to Navier-Stokes Problem

On September 14, 2026, Buckmaster, a mathematics professor at New York University, said in an interview that OpenAI's claim to have solved the Navier-Stokes equations marks an end to the traditional race among mathematicians to solve open problems. “The game is over,” he said. He argued that artificial intelligence has made such contests “meaningless,” and that the mathematical community should now “re-evaluate the nature of mathematics.”

The Navier-Stokes equations are fundamental to fluid dynamics and are among the Clay Mathematics Institute's Millennium Prize Problems. OpenAI's claim prompted Buckmaster's remarks.