A ChatGPT AI has proved a conjecture with a method no human had thought of. Experts believe it may have further uses ...

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The Erdős problem and its place in mathematics Erdős problems are a set of elegant but notoriously challenging conjectures left by Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős. They often require deep insight ...

This story originally appeared in the February 2025 issue of Texas Monthly as part of our public-education feature, “What Our Schools Actually Need.” Humans have been learning math for thousands of ...

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have made artificial intelligence more adaptable than ever before, but that comes with a drawback: lies. Generative AI tends to make things up, but ...

A 23-year-old without an advanced math degree has reportedly solved a decades-old Erdős problem with help from ChatGPT. Experts say the AI took an unconventional approach that human mathematicians had ...

You would be amazed to know that the countries competing in the International Mathematical Olympiad arrive with a booklet of ...

Good news! A computer has solved the longstanding Erdős discrepancy problem! Trouble is, we have no idea what it’s talking about — because the solution, which is as long as all of Wikipedia’s pages ...

Aletheia, a mathematical artificial intelligence (AI) agent from Google DeepMind developed and verified with the participation of Korean mathematicians, has presented solutions to 13 world-renowned ...