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Erdős #1196: full solution announced with GPT-5.4 Pro
Erdős #1196: full solution announced (GPT-5.4 Pro), paper with Tao, Lichtman, Barreto and Price
The gist
Erdős problem #1196 is said to be fully solved by GPT-5.4 Pro, according to the tracking wiki dated April 13, 2026. An arXiv paper presents it with Tao, Lichtman, Barreto and Price. Status: not yet evaluated.
DiscoverIA status on October 11, 2026: not evaluated, meaning no third-party evaluation found.
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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/entry/erdos-1196#releve-1},
urldate = {2026-10-11}
}Dated link opens this snapshot in the history
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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: April 13, 2026 for the wiki, May 2026 for Quanta.
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Recorded on · quantamagazine.org
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Method
DiscoverIA status: not evaluated, meaning that no third-party evaluation has been found in the sources read. Set on October 11, 2026 from quantamagazine.org (page read through a model summary, quotation not rechecked).
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Key facts
- Claimed by
- GPT-5.4 Pro (wiki); human co-authors
announced on Apr 13, 2026 - Nature
- new result
- Field
- Mathematics (number theory)
- Checked by
- human co-authors (according to Quanta)
- Sources
- 1 : 1 link only
- This entry
- AI draft, not reviewed
Status history
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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
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