Philip Arathoon

Mathematician
Visiting Assistant Professor, Babson College

[Philip Arathoon @philarathoon]

@hadilq @roydherbert The robot has a clever construction of N charges arranged in two nested orthogonal rings with O(N^3) equilibria.

[Philip Arathoon @philarathoon]

The Maxwell conjecture is false. Counterexample found by AI (GPT-5.6 Sol), communicated by human mathematicians: https://t.co/nBpSJiOIRO

[Philip Arathoon @philarathoon]

In 1873 Maxwell wondered if the number of equilibria of the electric field generated by n point charges couldn't exceed (n-1)^2. Last week the AI found a triangular bipyramid of 5 charges with 24 equilibria.