The closest the field has come to solving the planar unit distance problem, first proposed in the 1940s, was in 1984. Now, OpenAI claims an internal model has cracked the puzzle.

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

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

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 ChatGPT AI has proved a conjecture with a method no human had thought of. Experts believe it may have further uses ...

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

AI solved a math problem that stumped experts for 80 years, revealing deeper lessons about human cognition, focus, and ...

A new mathematical framework, built on a branch of number theory called adelic analysis, has produced a complete proof of the ...

OpenAI has said that one of its unreleased AI reasoning models has solved a long-standing mathematics problem first proposed ...

OpenAI says an AI reasoning model disproved an 80-year-old Erdős geometry conjecture, raising new questions about AI’s role ...

An engineering student refined a century-old math problem into a simpler, more elegant form, making it easier to use and explore. Divya Tyagi's work expands research in aerodynamics, unlocking new ...

UCLA mathematician Terence Tao, who reviewed the result, said that ChatGPT used a completely different method to solve the problem. It used a formula that was well known, but which no one had thought ...