Erdős #1196: full solution announced (GPT-5.4 Pro), paper with Tao, Lichtman, Barreto and Price
Status
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Recorded on · quantamagazine.org
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- Recordednot evaluated
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The gist
Erdős problem #1196 is said to be fully solved by GPT-5.4 Pro, according to the tracking wiki dated 13 April 2026. An arXiv paper presents it with Tao, Lichtman, Barreto and Price. Status: not yet evaluated.
Cite this entry
A single status snapshot since Oct 11, 2026: a citation always points to a dated snapshot.
Cite snapshot 1, Oct 11, 2026
APA citation with the dated link
BibTeX @misc, key discoveria-erdos-1196-r1
@misc{discoveria-erdos-1196-r1,
author = {{DiscoverIA}},
title = {Erdős #1196: full solution announced (GPT-5.4 Pro), paper with Tao, Lichtman, Barreto and Price},
howpublished = {DiscoverIA registry, entry erdos-1196},
note = {Status « Not evaluated », snapshot 1, recorded on October 11, 2026. new result},
year = {2026},
url = {https://discoveria.ai/en/fiche/erdos-1196/#releve-1},
urldate = {2026-10-11}
}Dated link opens this snapshot in the history
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What has not been reviewed?
The status and its sources come from the registry; only the explanatory text has not been reviewed. A reported error is corrected, then the text is reviewed.
The status and its sources come from the registry; only the explanatory text has not been reviewed. A reported error is corrected, then the text is reviewed.
Key facts
- Claimed by
- GPT-5.4 Pro (wiki) ; co-auteurs humains
announced on Apr 13, 2026 - Nature
- new result
- Field
- Mathematics (number theory)
- Checked by
- human co-authors (according to Quanta)
- Sources (domains)
- 1 : 1 links only
- This entry
- AI draft, not reviewed
To understand
Analogy
It is like a riddle left unanswered in a collection of challenges, for which someone announces a solution.
What it changes
If the solution held, an open problem in number theory would be closed. The solution would be credited to an AI model, with human mathematicians as co-authors of the paper.
What remains unclear
The co-authors are also the claimants: no independent review and no peer review have been recorded. The arXiv identifier was not noted, and the date varies by source: 13 April 2026 for the wiki, May 2026 for Quanta.
1 source.
For experts
Sources(domains)
- primairegithub.comlink only, reading not recorded
Method
Status “not evaluated” recorded on 11 October 2026 from quantamagazine.org (page read through a model summary, quotation not rechecked).
Limits
The status source was read through a model summary; its quotation was not rechecked. DiscoverIA has recorded no independent evaluation as of this date.
It is like a riddle left unanswered in a collection of challenges, for which someone announces a solution.
Status history
Only one observation so far.
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First observation:Not evaluatedCurrent status
the co-authors are also the claimants: no independent review found; no peer-reviewed publication found
Source: quantamagazine.orgread through an AI summary
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