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Erdős problem #958: formalisation by Seed Prover 1.5 (proof: Clemen, Dumitrescu, and Liu (2025))

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According to the teorth/erdosproblems wiki on AI and Erdős problems, Seed Prover 1.5 reportedly formalised the proof by Clemen, Dumitrescu, and Liu (2025) on problem #958 (formalisation announced on December 19, 2025).

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DiscoverIA. (2026, October 12). Erdős problem #958: formalisation by Seed Prover 1.5 (proof: Clemen, Dumitrescu, and Liu (2025)) [Status: Not evaluated, snapshot 1]. DiscoverIA registry. https://discoveria.ai/entry/erdos-958-seed-prover-1-5-2b#releve-1

BibTeX @misc, key discoveria-erdos-958-seed-prover-1-5-2b-r1

@misc{discoveria-erdos-958-seed-prover-1-5-2b-r1,
  author       = {{DiscoverIA}},
  title        = {Erdős problem #958: formalisation by Seed Prover 1.5 (proof: Clemen, Dumitrescu, and Liu (2025))},
  howpublished = {DiscoverIA registry, entry erdos-958-seed-prover-1-5-2b},
  note         = {Status “Not evaluated”, snapshot 1, recorded on October 12, 2026. Formalisation of a known result},
  year         = {2026},
  url          = {https://discoveria.ai/entry/erdos-958-seed-prover-1-5-2b#releve-1},
  urldate      = {2026-10-12}
}

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https://discoveria.ai/entry/erdos-958-seed-prover-1-5-2b#releve-1

To understand ≈ 20 s reading time, estimated

What it changes

The wiki sees a formalisation here: if it held, it would allow the proof it targets to be checked by computer. Problem #958 belongs to geometry, under the heading “distances”.

What remains unclear

The wiki does not name the formal language (one in which a computer checks every step of a proof) used on this line. The sources read do not say whether anyone has checked the formalisation, or whether the formalised statement matches that of the problem. A check published after the wiki was frozen would not appear in it.

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Status

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What this status means

Source reading : Source read word for word (level 3 of 3)

The result is declared neither right nor wrong.

To move to “Under review”: a public review under way. To “Peer reviewed”: a journal publication or a review by named experts.

Dated archive: status recorded on the wiki frozen on Jun 30, 2026

Full history

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: Seed Prover 1.5. Date given by the wiki: December 19, 2025. Exact text: “Formalization”. Proof to formalise: Clemen, Dumitrescu, and Liu (2025); 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/958. 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
Seed Prover 1.5, according to the AI-Erdős wiki
announced on Dec 19, 2025
Nature
formalisation of a known result
Field
Mathematics (Erdős problem #958 (distances ; geometry))
Wiki category
Formalization (contribution secondaire : formalisation)
Proof formalised
Clemen, Dumitrescu, and Liu'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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    First observation:Not evaluatedCurrent status

    Source: github.comread word for word

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AI contributions to Erdős problems (wiki by T. Tao, frozen on June 30, 2026) · entry 389 of 521, by problem number

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