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Paul Erdős

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Legendary 20th-century mathematician whose 1946 unsolved planar unit distance problem was reportedly solved by an OpenAI model.

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mention·Our World in Data·JUNE 5, 2026

OpenAI recently announced that an internal model, working entirely on its own, had made a breakthrough on the problem by disproving Erdős's conjecture and offering a better construction.

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mention·Our World in Data·JUNE 5, 2026

In 1946, mathematician Paul Erdős posed a now-famous problem in discrete geometry… He put forward his own conjecture about the solution, and offered a monetary prize to anyone who could resolve it. For 80 years, no one could.

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mention·Axios AI+·MAY 26, 2026

Last week, OpenAI announced that a forthcoming, general-purpose model solved the planar unit distance problem posed by Paul Erdős in 1946.

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