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OpenAI cracks 80-year-old math problem

A brainy riddle that's stumped mathematicians since World War II appears to have been cracked via artificial intelligence.

OpenAI claims it solved an 80-year-old math problem — for real this time

OpenAI claims its reasoning model disproved a geometry conjecture unsolved since 1946 — and this time, the mathematicians who ...
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.
Scientific American

‘Sensational’ proof topples decades-old geometry problem

The sudden resolution of a well-known conjecture highlights the growing adoption of AI as an assistant in high-level ...
Quanta Magazine

Two Researchers Are Rebuilding Mathematics From the Ground Up

By replacing the most fundamental concept in topology, Peter Scholze and Dustin Clausen are taking the first step in a far ...
Astronomy

The Gravity of Math: How Geometry Rules the Universe

The following is an excerpt from The Gravity of Math: How Geometry Rules the Universe by Steve Nadis and Shing-Tung Yau. Copyright 2024. Available from Basic Books ...
Phys.org

Analysis finds geometric thinking may come from wandering, not a human-only math module

Debates over how geometry is understood and learned date back at least to the days of Plato, with more recent scholars concluding that only humans possess the foundations of this understanding.