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AI Speeding Up Math Discoveries

by Brian Wang

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Jan 15, 2026
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A Mathematician with early access to XAI Grok 4.20, found a new Bellman function for one of the problems he had been working on with my student N. Alpay.

There have also been decades old open significant math problems solved by OpenAI GPT 5.2. These are several of the Paul Erdos problems.

Paul Erdős, the prolific Hungarian mathematician, posed over 1,000…

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