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OpenAI claims its new reasoning model has produced an original mathematical proof disproving a famous unsolved conjecture in geometry, which was first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946. If this sounds ...

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 ...

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