{"id":227588,"date":"2025-12-21T13:17:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T19:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/ai-is-solving-impossible-math-problems-can-it-best-the-worlds-top-mathematicians"},"modified":"2025-12-21T13:17:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T19:17:27","slug":"ai-is-solving-impossible-math-problems-can-it-best-the-worlds-top-mathematicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/ai-is-solving-impossible-math-problems-can-it-best-the-worlds-top-mathematicians","title":{"rendered":"AI is solving \u2018impossible\u2019 math problems. Can it best the world\u2019s top mathematicians?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-is-solving-impossible-math-problems-can-it-best-the-worlds-top-mathematicians.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Despite these potential limitations, Lackenby sees AI\u2019s promise in mathematical hypothesis generation. \u201cSo many different areas of mathematics are connected to each other, but spotting new connections is really of interest and this process is a good way of seeing new connections that you couldn\u2019t see before,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Lackenby\u2019s work demonstrates that AI can be helpful in suggesting conjectures that mathematicians can then go on to prove. And despite Saunders\u2019 reservations, Tao thinks AI could be useful in proving existing conjectures.<\/p>\n<p>The most immediate payoff might not be in tackling the hardest problems but in picking off the lowest-hanging fruit, Tao said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite these potential limitations, Lackenby sees AI\u2019s promise in mathematical hypothesis generation. \u201cSo many different areas of mathematics are connected to each other, but spotting new connections is really of interest and this process is a good way of seeing new connections that you couldn\u2019t see before,\u201d he said. Lackenby\u2019s work demonstrates that AI can [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2229,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}