AI cracks 80-year-old mathematics challenge — researchers are astonished

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22 May 2026

The late Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős thought he had the last word on a geometry problem. Now an OpenAI chatbot has proved him wrong.

An 80-year-old challenge in geometry has been cracked by an artificial-intelligence chatbot after a single prompt from mathematicians at the technology firm OpenAI.

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Nature 654, 15-16 (2026)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-026-01651-0

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