Erdős problems start falling to AI

Hobbyists using GPT-5.2 Pro solve Erdős Problem #728, and a DeepMind-led team uses Gemini to resolve four more and locate old solutions to nine.

What happened and why it matters

Terence Tao described the early solutions as "lowest-hanging fruit", and some claimed solutions turned out to be already in the literature. Even so, the open Erdős problems list became a live scoreboard for AI mathematics.

Sources

• How AI Tore Through a Mathematical Community ↗ Quanta Magazine · 3 Aug 2026