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 it matters.

A chatbot’s result for the 80-year-old “unit distance” conjecture is the first AI proof that would likely be published in math’s top journal if humans had done it alone ...

OpenAI claims its reasoning model disproved a geometry conjecture unsolved since 1946 — and this time, the mathematicians who exposed its last embarrassing claim are backing it up.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. News about AI math problem raises realization that finding counterexamples can be extremely valuable. getty In today’s column, I ...

A brainy riddle that's stumped mathematicians since World War II appears to have been cracked via artificial intelligence. OpenAI says one of its AI models has solved the "unit distance problem," a ...

The second batch of “First Proof” problems is meant to evaluate AI’s usefulness for research-level math. The best model got ...