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 ...
AOL

10 Hard Math Problems That Even the Smartest People in the World Can’t Crack

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 ...
Communications of the ACM

I Spent a Year Asking AI to Solve Math’s Hardest Problem. Here’s What Happened

P vs. NP asks: are these two classes actually the same? If P = NP, then every “hard” problem is secretly fast to solve; we ...
Newsweek

This Viral Math Problem Has the Internet in a Frenzy

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Mathematics is a fundamental part of anyone's elementary and high ...
Scientific American

The Simplest Math Problem Could Be Unsolvable

At first glance, the problem seems ridiculously simple. And yet experts have been searching for a solution in vain for decades. According to mathematician Jeffrey Lagarias, number theorist Shizuo ...