Unsolved Problem by Fields Medalist Breached by Two High School Students

Xcelerate

I sort of wonder if effectively using AI to solve math problems is a skill in its own right, distinct from traditional mathematical skills. I don’t just mean “prompt engineering” either. More so figuring out how to combine agents with other tools and approaches in an effective way.

htrp

the fact that you have to encourage these models and tell them that they can solve these problems and warm up on easier problems seems to indicate that there's something to AI pairing above and beyond prompt

sp-ti-en-ma-in

paper: Title: BOUNDED RATIOS FOR LORENTZIAN POLYNOMIALS https://arxiv.org/pdf/2609.05341

catpower

Great short term achievement but humanity is better served by these kids doing it without AI. The ideas have to come from the next generation (eg would we be worried if a 5 year old wrote the great American novel with AI or not?)

no-name-here

Real title includes: > Unsolved Problem by Fields Medalist Breached by Two High School Students with AI My title recommendation: Fields Medalist Problem Solved With AI They used AI for “ computation, proof idea generation , and editing assistance”. It’s a bit odd how they list the AIs used - “Claude Opus 5, Anthropic and ChatGPT Sol5.6 were used for calculations, proof ideas, and editorial assistance.”

dataflow

What I'm curious about is how far they would've gotten without the postdoc.

1299348

Not peer reviewed. UCLA seems to be full of AI boosters who perform circus tricks.

Aargau

Working backwards from the Navier-Stokes solution, I was able to walk Astra through the path used to solve it. It took some formulation, starting with the problem, then challenging it to look closer at the specific path, and iterating when it got stuck, it was able to reach the solution.

Founderarcstone

Great to see high school students getting attention on this.

robotpepi

i wonder if anyone is going to read that.

esafak

This looks like a graduate-level proof. Did these high school students really understand what they were doing? I'd like to see what they have to say. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2609.05341

thrill

Haven't you heard? Fields Medalists believe it only counts when they do the solving - not the unwashed.