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 ...

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

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

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

Then it’s kind of a mystery to try to figure out why and how they’re related.” The Riemann hypothesis has proved to be a font ...

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

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

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 ...

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.

OpenAI says its AI model solved a famous 80-year-old maths problem that puzzled experts for decades, marking a major ...