Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős’ ‘planar unit distance conjecture’ has stood since 1946 – but an AI disproof has made ...

Only a few months ago, the question felt mostly philosophical: if artificial intelligence can help solve open math problems, ...

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

Solve the math puzzle from our June 2026 issue, where an ant navigates the surface of various objects to find the shortest ...

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 has revealed a breakthrough proof that overturns a nearly 80-year-old geometry conjecture posed by Paul Erdős.

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

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Every year, the countries competing in the International Mathematical Olympiad arrive with a booklet of their best, most original problems. Those booklets get shared among delegations, then quietly ...

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