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