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 ...

Place any number of dots on a two-dimensional plane—say, a piece of paper—and measure the distance between each pair. If you ...

In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in ...

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

OpenAI claims its model solved a famous geometry problem that has eluded the world’s greatest mathematicians for 80 years — a breakthrough hailed as evidence of the bot’s creativity and “intuition.” ...

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

For decades, one of mathematics' most famous unsolved puzzles resisted the efforts of researchers around the world.

Indian mathematician and 2025 winner of the Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize for her work at the intersection of ...

Three mathematicians have laid out proof that solves a long-standing problem in mathematics. Even the mathematician—an Abel ...

Mathematicians are stunned at the progress AI is making in solving advanced problems, leaving some questioning whether there ...