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| Published rank | Name | Recorded contribution grades | Reference points | Linked work |
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| Rank 1 | Newton: Principia Mathematica | Reference points 1,000,000 | 1 record | |
| Rank 2 | Einstein: the gravitational field equations | Reference points 900,000 | ||
| Rank 3 | Euclid: organizing geometry through definitions and proof | Reference points 800,000 | ||
| Rank 3 | Maxwell: A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field | Reference points 800,000 | ||
| Rank 5 | Darwin and Wallace: the joint publication on natural selection | Reference points 700,000 | ||
| Rank 5 | OpenAI: A claimed fixed zero-free half-plane for zeta and Dirichlet L-functions | If verified · conditional significanceSClaim scope and evidenceReported result · not independently verified. | Reference points 700,000 Includes 700,000 unverified reference points | 1 record
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| Rank 5 | OpenAI: A claimed Hodge theorem for all CM abelian varieties | If verified · conditional significanceSClaim scope and evidenceReported result · not independently verified. | Reference points 700,000 Includes 700,000 unverified reference points | 1 record
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| Rank 5 | Schrödinger: quantization as an eigenvalue problem | Reference points 700,000 | ||
| Rank 9 | Einstein: special relativity | Reference points 650,000 | 1 record | |
| Rank 9 | Fubini and Tonelli: valid reduction of multiple Lebesgue integrals to iterated integrals | Reference points 650,000 | ||
| Rank 9 | Heisenberg: reinterpreting quantum kinematics | Reference points 650,000 | ||
| Rank 9 | Leibniz: a published differential calculus | Reference points 650,000 | ||
| Rank 9 | Lieb and Ruskai: strong subadditivity of quantum entropy | Reference points 650,000 | ||
| Rank 9 | OpenAI: The Unique Games Conjecture | If verified · conditional significanceSClaim scope and evidenceReported result · not independently verified. | Reference points 650,000 Includes 650,000 unverified reference points | 1 record
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| Rank 15 | Cooley and Tukey: fast discrete Fourier computation | Reference points 600,000 | ||
| Rank 15 | Kolmogorov: axiomatic foundations for probability | Reference points 600,000 | ||
| Rank 15 | Lavoisier: an elementary system for the new chemistry | Reference points 600,000 | ||
| Rank 15 | OpenAI: A matrix-multiplication exponent at most 9/4 | If verified · conditional significanceSClaim scope and evidenceReported result · not independently verified. | Reference points 600,000 Includes 600,000 unverified reference points | 1 record
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| Rank 15 | Turing: computable numbers and the Entscheidungsproblem | Reference points 600,000 | ||
| Rank 15 | Zermelo: well-ordering an arbitrary set using a choice function | Reference points 600,000 | ||
| Rank 21 | Galileo: mathematical treatment of motion in Two New Sciences | Reference points 550,000 | ||
| Rank 21 | Haber–Bosch: making ammonia at industrial scale | Reference points 550,000 | ||
| Rank 21 | OpenAI: A claimed isomorphism of free group factors of different ranks | If verified · conditional significanceSClaim scope and evidenceReported result · not independently verified. | Reference points 550,000 Includes 550,000 unverified reference points | 1 record
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| Rank 21 | OpenAI: A two-dimensional gapped area law | If verified · conditional significanceSClaim scope and evidenceReported result · not independently verified. | Reference points 550,000 Includes 550,000 unverified reference points | 1 record
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| Rank 21 | OpenAI: Claimed large-data global smoothness for three-dimensional relativistic Vlasov–Maxwell | If verified · conditional significanceSClaim scope and evidenceReported result · not independently verified. | Reference points 550,000 Includes 550,000 unverified reference points | 1 record
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