Think You’re Good at Math? See How Far You Get With These 10 Unsolved Problems

For all of the recent strides we’ve made in the math world, we’re forever crunching calculations in pursuit of deeper ...
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OpenAI has successfully disproven a mathematical conjecture that had remained unsolved for nearly 80 years, a discovery that has surprised even human mathematicians, who say ...

On May 20, 2026, OpenAI announced that its internal AI model had disproven a long-held prediction regarding the 'unit distance problem,' a central unsolved problem in discrete geometry. The unit ...
Smithsonian Magazine

A.I. Disproves a Decades-Old Mathematical Idea, the ‘Biggest Conjecture’ That the Tech Has Played a Role in Yet

A mathematician announced that he used one of Anthropic's A.I. models to find a counterexample to a problem called the Jacobian conjecture. While experts consider it a milestone, the work raises quest ...
Indiatimes

Anthropic researcher thanks Claude for solving 87-year-old Math conjecture; says Jacobian conjecture is false

An Anthropic researcher has credited the company's AI model, Claude Fable 5, with helping overturn one of mathematics' longest-standing problems. Levent Alpöge, a mathematician at Anthropic, announced ...
New Scientist

Mathematicians are bitterly divided over a controversial proof

An attempt to fix problems with a controversial mathematical proof has itself become mired in controversy, in the latest twist in a saga that has been running for over a decade and has seen ...
The Conversation

A purported new mathematics proof is impenetrable – now what?

University of Florida provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation US. What happens when someone claims to have proved a famous conjecture? Well, it depends. When a paper is submitted, ...