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Amateur Solves 60-Year-Old Math Problem With ChatGPT

Scientific American reports that 23-year-old Liam Price, with no advanced math training, used ChatGPT Pro to help solve an Erdős problem that had stumped mathematicians for decades. The breakthrough appears notable not just because it found a solution, but because the model surfaced a different proof strategy than humans had used before, and experts say that insight may generalize to other problems.

// ANALYSIS

Hot take: this is a better AI story than the usual “benchmark win” headline because it’s about finding a genuinely different route, not just cranking through known patterns.

–The value here is idea generation and pattern-breaking, not autonomous theorem proving.
–Human experts still had to validate, interpret, and compress the raw proof into something mathematically usable.
–The article suggests the result may matter beyond this one conjecture if the method transfers to related problems.
–It also highlights the limits of current math benchmarks: many look impressive but don’t prove broad reasoning ability.

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4h ago

2026-04-27

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8h ago

2026-04-26

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