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Aaron Roth @Aaroth · 23h

A world without open problems
Here are some that fell today:
K-server: arxiv.org/abs/2609.15979
Matroid Secretary: arxiv.org/abs/2609.14555...
Matrix Spencer: arxiv.org/abs/2609.15025
(Well Matrix Spencer was maybe also a few weeks ago, but who's counting? arxiv.org/abs/2608.28816
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Aaron Roth @Aaroth · Aug 1
We are clearly moving to a world that will be without open problems, but this doesn't mean math is going away. Interesting work will correspond to discovering new questions and coherent theoretical frameworks. Well defined ... [cut off]
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

Tweet by theoretical computer scientist Aaron Roth listing several open problems (k-server, matroid secretary, matrix Spencer) as having been resolved, with arXiv links, framing it as 'a world without open problems'; quotes his Aug 1 post saying math will shift toward finding new questions and theoretical frameworks.

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