A famous math problem stumped humans for 80 years. AI just cracked it.

The math world is losing its mind over the new solution to an Erdős problem. This is what AI found, how we missed it—and why ...
Interesting Engineering

80-year-old geometry mystery cracked by OpenAI using deep number theory

OpenAI has revealed a breakthrough proof that overturns a nearly 80-year-old geometry conjecture posed by Paul Erdős.

OpenAI makes breakthrough in 80-year-old math problem with ‘ingenious ideas’

The puzzle poses a deceptively simple question that boils down to: How many pairs of dots on a piece of paper can be the same ...

AI makes a major breakthrough in a math problem that had stumped experts for decades

For nearly 80 years, mathematicians have struggled to solve a classic geometry puzzle first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946: the ...
Nature

AI cracks 80-year-old mathematics challenge — researchers are astonished

An 80-year-old challenge in geometry has been cracked by an artificial-intelligence chatbot after a single prompt from mathematicians at the technology firm OpenAI. The company, based in San Francisco ...