🤯 AI may have just triggered a domino effect in pure mathematics.

A few weeks ago, researchers at OpenAI revealed that one of their internal models found a radically new construction for the famous Erdős single-distance problem, overturning what mathematicians had believed for nearly 80 years. The shocking part wasn’t just the result, it was the method.

Instead of using the standard geometric approach, the AI connected the problem to deep algebraic number theory using towers of class fields, a direction many humans had apparently overlooked. Now the ripple effects are already showing up.

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