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AI makes a major breakthrough in a math problem that had stumped experts for decades

  • May 22, 2026 at 5:50 PM
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AI makes a major breakthrough in a math problem that had stumped experts for decades
For nearly 80 years, mathematicians have struggled to solve a classic geometry puzzle first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946: the planar unit distance problem. The question posed by the legendary Hungarian mathematician was, on the surface, deceptively simple.

Originally published at Phys.org

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