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Melissa LeeThe Conversation |
AI-powered breakthroughs are raising big questions about how to do mathematics – and why we do it in the first place.
Yet another longstanding mathematical question has been resolved by AI – and it feels a little different from the ones that have come before
Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős’ ‘planar unit distance conjecture’ has stood since 1946 – but an AI disproof has made mathematicians pay attention.