On Saturday, OpenAI announced solutions to three Erdős problems. These solutions, along with May’s high-profile counterexample to the “unit distance” problem, are quickly changing how mathematicians approach their work. @kkakaes.bsky.social reports: www.quantamagazine.org/why-the-lege...
Why the Legendary Erdős Problems Are Falling to AI | Quanta MagazineAI’s greatest mathematical successes have come from answers to problems posed by a mid-20th century iconoclast. By examining what makes the Erdős problems unique, mathematicians are trying to understa...www.quantamagazine.org