🧮 AI solved a math problem humans struggled with for 80 years
An OpenAI model just cracked a famous 1946 problem posed by mathematician Paul Erdős — something researchers couldn’t solve for decades.
The challenge: arrange points on a plane so the maximum number of pairs sit at the same distance. Everyone believed square grids were basically optimal.
The AI proved otherwise. Not with one trick example — but with an infinite family of better constructions.
The scary part? It connected geometry with algebraic number theory — fields humans rarely linked together here.
This wasn’t faster calculation. It was a genuinely new mathematical insight. 🤖