The Jacobian conjecture has bedeviled math experts for nearly 90 years.

In May 2026, OpenAI released a new math result that sent shock waves throughout the world of mathematical research. A major ...

Claude Fable 5 reportedly disproved the Jacobian Conjecture with a one-line counterexample, signaling AI’s growing math role.

What’s the secret to prompting an AI to solve math problems that have left humans stumped? Tell it to believe in itself ...

In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry that had stumped human mathematicians for the last 80 ...

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