mathematics

String theorist Ashoke Sen received the Oskar Klein Medal on 22 October 2026, awarded jointly by Stockholm University and the Nobel Committee for Physics. He is the first Indian physicist ever to win it.

A question mathematicians left open for about 90 years — can smooth fluid motion break down on its own? — was answered in 88 hours by roughly 10,000 AI agents. Here is the problem in plain English, what OpenAI actually proved, and why nobody is claiming the $1 million.