Daily Briefing: ChatGPT Solves a 60-Year Math Problem for an Amateur

A 23-year-old amateur mathematician named Liam Price solved a 60-year-old Erdős conjecture using ChatGPT Pro, with the model discovering a mathematical technique that experts hadn't considered. The case — verified by Terence Tao and other mathematicians — represents the clearest documented example of AI-assisted intellectual discovery through iterative human-AI collaboration, a pattern also emerging in physics and algorithm design.

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Amateur mathematician solves 60-year-old Erdős problem using iterative ChatGPT exploration — Scientific American

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