On the record · Updated October 18, 2026
NYU mathematics professor
2 things Tristan Buckmaster said, verbatim, on September 9, 2026, each linked to where it ran. Grouped by the story each one belongs to.
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“because the alternative is to let a sequence of announcements say something I know to be false”
on why he publicly challenged OpenAI's account of the math problem's solving
BBC News OpenAI says it cracked 90-year-old maths problem in 88 hours ›
On the claim ledger Open
“It is not the direction one arrives at in a few days by giving a model the problem statement.”
on his dispute over how OpenAI arrived at its solution to a math problem
TechCrunch OpenAI says 10,000 agents solved part of a 90-year-old fluid problem in 88 hours, and an NYU mathematician says the approach was already his ›
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