# The mathematician taking on AI

An episode of [ABC News Daily](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1349523628), 15 Oct 2026, 15 min.

Audio: https://mediacore-live-production.akamaized.net/audio/02/pf/Z/b6.mp3

Melbourne-born academic Tristan Buckmaster says he was maybe just one month away from solving the Navier-Stokes equation, a maths problem so difficult there was a million-dollar prize on offer for anyone who could. But just as the New York University professor and his collaborator, a mathematician affiliated with AI company Anthropic, were closing in on a solution, OpenAI claimed a breakthrough of its own. Today we speak to Tristan about his dispute with Open AI and the future of mathematics. Featured: Dr Tristan Buckmaster, Professor of Mathematics at New York University

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