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Erdős problem #194: formalisation by Aristotle (proof: Ardal, Brown, and Jungić (2011))
The gist
According to the wiki on AI and Erdős problems, Aristotle reportedly formalised the proof by Ardal, Brown, and Jungić (2011) of problem #194 (formalisation announced on April 15, 2026).
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BibTeX @misc, key discoveria-erdos-194-aristotle-2b-r1
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author = {{DiscoverIA}},
title = {Erdős problem #194: formalisation by Aristotle (proof: Ardal, Brown, and Jungić (2011))},
howpublished = {DiscoverIA registry, entry erdos-194-aristotle-2b},
note = {Status “Not evaluated”, snapshot 1, recorded on October 12, 2026. Formalisation of a known result},
year = {2026},
url = {https://discoveria.ai/entry/erdos-194-aristotle-2b#releve-1},
urldate = {2026-10-12}
}Dated link opens this snapshot in the history
To understand ≈ 20 s reading time, estimated
What it changes
The wiki sees a formalisation here: if it held, the proof by Ardal, Brown, and Jungić (2011) would have a version that a computer can check, with no new result. Problem #194 belongs to arithmetic progressions.
What remains unclear
The wiki does not name the formal language of this formalisation, and the sources read name no verifier. A verification published after the wiki's freeze would not appear there.
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Status
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What this status means
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Dated archive: status recorded on the wiki frozen on Jun 30, 2026
Sources
- Main sourcegithub.com · wikipage read word for word · consulted on Oct 12, 2026
- Reference listerdosproblems.comlink only, reading not recorded
- Corroborationterrytao.wordpress.compage read word for word · consulted on Oct 17, 2026 ·
We have created a github repository to coordinate this process
- Repositorygithub.com · CONTRIBUTING.mdpage read word for word · consulted on Oct 17, 2026 ·
this status is an unofficial crowdsourced classification of the problem
Method
Source: the “AI contributions to Erdős problems” wiki of the teorth/erdosproblems repository (a repository presented by Terence Tao in his blog post of August 31, 2025); frozen on June 30, 2026 (commit c8ad430, “freeze”) and read on October 12, 2026 in the git repository. Category 2(b), “Formalization” (secondary contribution). Humans named by the wiki: none; AI system: Aristotle. Date given by the wiki: April 15, 2026. Exact text: “Formalization”. Proof to formalise: Ardal, Brown, and Jungić (2011); wiki flag on this proof: green (“full resolution”, according to the wiki's legend); the wiki does not name the formal language on this line. Literature cited by the wiki: none. Status of the problem in the teorth/erdosproblems community database (data/problems.yaml, unofficial classification, snapshot of October 12, 2026 with no commit identified, current state, not that of June 2026): disproved, answered in the negative (informal_status=disproved); a solution has been formalised in Lean (formal_status=Lean). This status concerns the problem, not this contribution. Problem page not read by DiscoverIA: https://www.erdosproblems.com/194. DiscoverIA status: not evaluated (only the wiki's classification exists). Recorded on October 12, 2026.
Limits
Nature: formalisation (an already known result translated into a language a machine can check), not a discovery. DiscoverIA has not checked this contribution itself.
Key facts
- Claimed by
- Aristotle, according to the AI-Erdős wiki
announced on Apr 15, 2026 - Nature
- formalisation of a known result
- Field
- Mathematics (Erdős problem #194 (arithmetic progressions))
- Wiki category
- Formalization (contribution secondaire : formalisation)
- Proof formalised
- Ardal, Brown, and Jungić's
- Checked by
- no verifier identified
- Sources
- 4 : 3 read word for word, 1 link only
- This entry
- AI draft, not reviewed
Status history
Only one observation so far.
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In the same set
AI contributions to Erdős problems (wiki by T. Tao, frozen on June 30, 2026) · entry 61 of 521, by problem number
- Not evaluated : Erdős problem #188: partial results found in the literature according to the wiki (GPT-5)
- Not evaluated : Erdős problem #189: formalisation by Aristotle, Gemini 3 Pro (proof: Kovač (2023))
- Not evaluated : Erdős problem #192: formalisation by Aristotle (proof: Keränen (1992))
- Not evaluated : Erdős problem #194: formalisation by Aristotle (proof: Ardal, Brown, and Jungić (2011))
- Not evaluated : Erdős problem #198: new proof according to the wiki (AlphaProof)
- Not evaluated : Erdős problem #198: formalisation by Aristotle, GPT (proof: Baumgartner (1975))
- Not evaluated : Erdős problem #199: formalisation by Aristotle (proof: Baumgartner (1975))
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