A chatbot’s result for the 80-year-old “unit distance” conjecture is the first AI proof that would likely be published in ...

For nearly 80 years, mathematicians have struggled to solve a classic geometry puzzle first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946: the ...

The puzzle poses a deceptively simple question that boils down to: How many pairs of dots on a piece of paper can be the same ...

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

Researchers at Google DeepMind have announced that their AI system, AlphaProof Nexus, has solved nine longstanding problems posed by Paul Erdős, including some that remained unsolved for over fifty ...

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

Company says work on Paul Erdős planar unit distance problem shows advance in AI reasoning ...

Google DeepMind's AlphaProof Nexus solved nine longstanding Erdős problems with Lean-verified proofs, sparking debates about AI progress and its limitations.

GPT-5.4 Pro cracked a conjecture in number theory that had stumped generations of mathematicians, using a proof strategy that no human had ever considered.

In September 2019, news broke regarding progress on this 82-year-old question, thanks to prolific mathematician Terence Tao. And while the story of Tao’s breakthrough is promising, the problem isn’t ...

Elementary math isn't taught the same way it was when we were kids. Here's how to help your child succeed with their math ...

Bitcoin miners don't solve complex math problems - they guess numbers. While "solving mathematical puzzles" has become a common description of bitcoin mining, the process more closely resembles a ...