GPT-5 “solves 10 Erdős problems”: the solutions were already in the literature
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What this status means
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The gist
In October 2025, OpenAI staff announced that GPT-5 had solved 10 Erdős problems; the announcement was deleted because GPT-5 had found solutions that were already published. Status: withdrawn.
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-339-gpt5-lit-search-2025-10-r1
@misc{discoveria-erdos-339-gpt5-lit-search-2025-10-r1,
author = {{DiscoverIA}},
title = {GPT-5 “solves 10 Erdős problems”: the solutions were already in the literature},
howpublished = {DiscoverIA registry, entry erdos-339-gpt5-lit-search-2025-10},
note = {Status « Withdrawn », snapshot 1, recorded on October 11, 2026. literature search},
year = {2026},
url = {https://discoveria.ai/en/fiche/erdos-339-gpt5-lit-search-2025-10/#releve-1},
urldate = {2026-10-11}
}Dated link opens this snapshot in the history
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Key facts
- Claimed by
- Not shown (withdrawn entry)
announced on Oct 12, 2025 - Nature
- literature search
- Field
- Mathematics (mathematics (literature search))
- Checked by
- Thomas Bloom (erdosproblems.com), quoted by The Decoder
- Sources (domains)
- 1 : 1 links only
- This entry
- AI draft, not reviewed
To understand
Analogy
It is like a reader who finds the answer to a puzzle in a library and presents it as new, when all they did was find the right book.
What it changes
This is not a solution: it is a literature search that linked problems listed as open to existing references. If the tool is reliable at that, it can help locate answers that were already published, which is a different contribution from proving something new.
What remains unclear
The original messages were deleted; the account rests on press coverage (The Decoder), which quotes Thomas Bloom of erdosproblems.com calling it “a dramatic misinterpretation”. The record does not detail how many references were actually found.
1 source.
For experts
Sources(domains)
- primairethe-decoder.comlink only, reading not recorded
Method
Status “withdrawn” recorded on 11 October 2026 from the-decoder.com (page read through a model summary, quotation not rechecked).
Limits
The status source was read through a model summary; its quotation was not rechecked.
It is like a reader who finds the answer to a puzzle in a library and presents it as new, when all they did was find the right book.
Status history
Only one observation so far.
- 01
First observation:WithdrawnCurrent status
announcement deleted; GPT-5 had found existing references
Source: the-decoder.comread through an AI summary
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