Has an AI discovered new maths? @standupmaths
Has an AI discovered new maths?  @standupmaths
Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
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Thomas Bloom’s site documenting the Erdős problems:
erdosproblems.com

A full state of play (up to June 30 2026) on AI contributions to Erdős problems can be found here:
github.com/teorth/Erdosproblems/wiki/AI-contributions-to-Erd%C5%91s-problems

A simplified interactive visualisation to new unit distance problem constructions is here:
chatgpt.com/canvas/shared/6a15da73c5b08191a2dc34c3ac6ceca6

More details on each solved Erdős problem referenced in the video can be found below categorized by problem number:

Erdős problem #1043
erdosproblems.com/1043
Commentary from Sebastien Bubeck: https://x.com/SebastienBubeck/status/1980311866770653632
Terry Tao’s Mathstodon post: https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/115385022005130505

Erdős problem #1026
erdosproblems.com/1026
Terry Tao’s blog on the solution: terrytao.wordpress.com/2025/12/08/the-story-of-Erdős-problem-126

Erdős problem #728
erdosproblems.com/728
Terry Tao’s Mathstodon post: https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/115855840223258103
Kevin Barreto’s blog post about AI and problem 728: erdosproblems.com/forum/thread/blog:2
Writeup of the Aristotle’s Lean proof: drive.google.com/file/d/1MRQfcHhrYMfMTvlZcMC3zEK7aOrUyHiQ/view

Erdős problem #1196
erdosproblems.com/1196
Link to the paper on Arxiv: arxiv.org/abs/2605.00301
Record of Liam Price’s initial conversation with Chat GPT: chatgpt.com/share/69dd1c83-b164-8385-bf2e-8533e9baba9c

Erdős problem #90
erdosproblems.com/90
Remarks on the disproof of the conjecture: cdn.openai.com/pdf/74c24085-19b0-4534-9c90-465b8e29ad73/unit-distance-remarks.pdf

Lean programming language:
lean-lang.org

Here are the details on Arxiv’s rules around AI in submitted papers:
reddit.com/r/math/s/G3tJfBTdSB

Here’s the paper I mention at the very end of the video:
arxiv.org/html/2605.22763v1

Leiden Decleration on AI and Mathematics:
leidendeclaration.ai

A subsequent discovery post Unit Distance Conjecture:
arxiv.org/abs/2605.28781

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CORRECTIONS
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