ConjectureWatch
A weekly briefing that tracks the status of famous open problems in mathematics, alerts you when a major conjecture moves (proved, disproved, or new partial result), and explains what changed.
Math-curious professionals and amateur mathematicians who follow the field from outside academia
- Curated dashboard of 50+ famous open problems with current status and latest activity
- Plain-language weekly digest of what moved in the math world, with link-outs to primary sources
- 'Why it matters' panel explaining real-world implications and why non-mathematicians should care
- Saved-problems feed where you can subscribe to specific conjectures and get notified on updates
The Jacobian conjecture was open for decades before being disproved with the help of AI search — a watershed moment that signals to curious outsiders that long-stuck problems can suddenly break, and creates demand for a tracker.
Jacobian conjecture disproval went mainstream: HN 118 pts, coverage in TNW, Mashable, Yahoo, CoinDesk, indicating math-break news crosses into curious-outsider audiences; Quanta's 825K YouTube subs confirm math-news appetite, but the narrow target (amateurs outside academia) keeps this from being a mass-market pull.AI just disproved the 87-year-old Jacobian conjecture - TNW ↗A mathematician used Fable 5 to disprove a major math problem ↗
Existing assets serve adjacent but distinct needs: OpenConjecture is a researcher-facing dataset, UnsolvedMath is a static repository, Quanta covers general math news episodically, Tao's blog is academic. No competitor runs a weekly status-tracker of famous open problems aimed at math-curious outsiders.Introducing OpenConjecture, a living dataset of mathematics conjectures ↗UnsolvedMath | Repository of Open Mathematics Problems ↗
Search for paid math/mathematics newsletters returned no successful examples; Quanta — the dominant math-news brand — is free and Simons Foundation-funded, a strong signal that the math-curious audience is hard to convert to paid subs.Quanta Magazine - Wikipedia ↗Quanta Magazine Net Worth & Earnings (2026) ↗
Famous open problems (Riemann, P vs NP, Navier-Stokes, Collatz) are decades- to century-spanning topics, giving an evergreen backlog; AI-assisted mathematics may accelerate status changes, increasing event frequency and newsletter freshness.AI just disproved the 87-year-old Jacobian conjecture - TNW ↗Math News, Interviews and Columns From Quanta Magazine ↗
OpenConjecture demonstrates that arXiv + LLM pipeline already works to detect/track open conjectures; a Substack-style newsletter layered on top is low-cost and proven technically.Introducing OpenConjecture, a living dataset of mathematics conjectures ↗GitHub - davisrbr/conjectures-arxiv: OpenConjecture dataset ↗