Chinese AI solves decade-old maths problem in hours, with no human intervention
Source: Bangkok Post
Published on: 2026-04-13 09:17
A Chinese artificial intelligence framework has autonomously resolved an open problem proposed more than a decade ago by a US mathematician, according to the Peking University-led team that developed it. The dual-agent framework solved the problem posed in 2014 by former University of Iowa professor Dan Anderson - who died in 2022 at the age of 73 - the researchers said in a preprint paper published on April 4. By synthesising decades of mathematical literature, the Chinese team's AI framework bridged the gap between natural language reasoning and formal machine verification to resolve Anderson's conjecture and verify its own findings, they said. "Using this framework, we successfully solved an open problem in commutative algebra and automatically formalised the proof with essentially no human intervention," the researchers wrote in the paper, published in the open-access online resea...
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