Mathematician Jared Duker Lichtman from Stanford University received an unexpected email with the answer to Erdős problem 1196, a decades-old enigma he had been working on.
Lichtman dedicated seven years of his life trying to solve the mathematical problem proposed by legendary Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős.
The solution did not come from another academic mathematician, but from an amateur who used artificial intelligence to arrive at the answer.
This case illustrates how artificial intelligence is transforming mathematics, enabling people outside of academia to contribute to the resolution of problems that have challenged experts for decades.
