Place any number of dots on a two-dimensional plane—say, a piece of paper—and measure the distance between each pair. If you ...

In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in ...

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.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Last month many mathematicians were shocked by OpenAI’s announcement that artificial intelligence had solved geometry’s famous ...

Mathematician Will Sawin discusses his experience reviewing and refining a mathematical proof devised by OpenAI's internal ...

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 ...

OpenAI announced this week that one of its general-purpose reasoning models made a breakthrough that has grabbed the ...

Mathematicians warned against rising tech industry influence in a declaration describing the many challenges that AI poses to ...

Heisuke Hironaka, an influential mathematician who received one of his profession's highest honors for devising an algorithm to handle the sharp edges and pointy peaks of geometry, died on March 18 at ...

Three mathematicians have laid out proof that solves a long-standing problem in mathematics. Even the mathematician—an Abel ...

For decades, one of mathematics' most famous unsolved puzzles resisted the efforts of researchers around the world.

An OpenAI AI has brought mathematics one step closer to solving a famous Erdős problem. Researchers have been stuck on this for 80 years.