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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For decades, one of mathematics' most famous unsolved puzzles resisted the efforts of researchers around the world.

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Every few months, a math problem goes viral on social media. Disappointingly often, it lacks mathematical meat. It seems over half of them boil down to the order of operations. Some tweet will get ...

A long-standing mathematical puzzle linked to the work of Paul Erdős has reportedly been solved with the help of ChatGPT, bringing fresh attention to how artificial intelligence is beginning to ...

At 6 A.M. or P.M. (it doesn’t matter which), a clock’s minute hand and hour hand point in opposite directions, forming a straight line across the clockface. When is the next time this will happen?