AI uncovers solutions to Erdős problems, moving closer to transforming math
One idle evening last October, Mehtaab Sawhney took up an old pastime. He began perusing the website erdosproblems.com, an updated record of the 1,179 conjectures left behind by the eccentric and indefatigable 20th-century mathematician Paul Erdős. Sawhney, a mathematician at Columbia University, had always been interested in the Erdős problems, which range from minor curiosities…
