Google DeepMind's AlphaProof Nexus solved nine longstanding Erdős problems with Lean-verified proofs, sparking debates about AI progress and its limitations.
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OpenAI claims its reasoning model disproved a geometry conjecture unsolved since 1946 — and this time, the mathematicians who ...