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 ...

An OpenAI model solved a famous math problem that stumped humans for 80 years

In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in ...
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OpenAI’s Model Solves 80-Year-Old Math Problem

OpenAI says an AI reasoning model disproved an 80-year-old Erdős geometry conjecture, raising new questions about AI’s role ...

New Research Challenges the Idea That Geometry Is Uniquely Human

Geometry may come from navigation skills shared with animals, while human language allows those spatial abilities to become ...

An OpenAI Model ‘Disproved’ a Famous Math Conjecture. This Mathematician Couldn’t Leave It Alone

Mathematician Will Sawin discusses his experience reviewing and refining a mathematical proof devised by OpenAI's internal ...

OpenAI’s Breakthrough On Famed Math Problem Actually Proves That Using AI To Find Counterexamples Is A Smart Strategy For Everyone

OpenAI makes big splash with AI finding math problem breakthrough. Real lesson is to use AI to find counterexamples. An AI ...

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 ...
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 ...