SMRTR AIAug 3, 2026Quanta Magazine

Why the Legendary Erdős Problems Are Falling to AI

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In May 2026, OpenAI's internal AI solved a math problem that had stumped experts for 80 years. The "unit distance" problem, posed by Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős in 1946, finally fell to AI, showing that these tools can now tackle long-standing, complex mathematical challenges once thought unsolvable.

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