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Terence Tao

Terence Tao

Fields Medalist, UCLA Mathematics Professor

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Notable Quotes

"The most productive near-term adoptions of AI in mathematics will primarily come not from applying the most powerful models to the most challenging problems... but from using medium-powered tools to accelerate and scale up more mundane and time-consuming, but still essential, research tasks." — Mathstodon, February 2026

"One should not view this page as representing any sort of finely calibrated benchmark." — erdosproblems.com wiki, January 2026

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AI systems begin solving historic Erdős mathematical problems

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Actively coordinating AI-assisted mathematics research through erdosproblems.com

For the first time, AI systems are independently solving mathematical problems that stumped human researchers for decades. Since Christmas 2025, 15 problems from the legendary mathematician Paul Erdős's collection have been moved from 'open' to 'solved'—and 11 of those solutions specifically credited AI models. On January 6, 2026, a combination of OpenAI's GPT-5.2 Pro and Harmonic's Aristotle theorem prover produced the first fully autonomous AI solution to an Erdős problem that hadn't already been solved in the existing literature.

Updated Feb 13