Whenever I get coffee with a mathematician, I always ask which of the seven Millennium Problems they think will be next to ...
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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 ...
In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in ...
The closest the field has come to solving the planar unit distance problem, first proposed in the 1940s, was in 1984. Now, OpenAI claims an internal model has cracked the puzzle.
The second batch of “First Proof” problems is meant to evaluate AI’s usefulness for research-level math. The best model got ...
"Current automated techniques can produce plausible but unreliable (or even incorrect) arguments which are difficult to ...
A ChatGPT AI has proved a conjecture with a method no human had thought of. Experts believe it may have further uses ...
OpenAI makes big splash with AI finding math problem breakthrough. Real lesson is to use AI to find counterexamples. An AI Insider analysis and scoop.
From writing essays to coding, there’s seemingly nothing modern AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot cannot accomplish. But even though they seem limitless on the surface, they’re certainly ...
In the article “ Are Students Prepared for College-Level Math? A Senator Wants to Know ” (Jan. 23, 2026), U.S. Sen. Bill ...
Physicist Richard Feynman turned a lunch dilemma into a math problem. Researchers finally cracked his notes and found people ...