{"id":242191,"date":"2026-08-04T09:05:52","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T14:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/why-the-legendary-erdos-problems-are-falling-to-ai"},"modified":"2026-08-04T09:05:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T14:05:52","slug":"why-the-legendary-erdos-problems-are-falling-to-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/why-the-legendary-erdos-problems-are-falling-to-ai","title":{"rendered":"Why the Legendary Erd\u0151s Problems Are Falling to AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-the-legendary-erdos-problems-are-falling-to-ai.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>AI\u2019s greatest mathematical successes have come from answers to problems posed by a mid-20th century iconoclast. By examining what makes the Erd\u0151s problems unique, mathematicians are trying to understand how AI might change the rest of math.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI\u2019s greatest mathematical successes have come from answers to problems posed by a mid-20th century iconoclast. By examining what makes the Erd\u0151s problems unique, mathematicians are trying to understand how AI might change the rest of math.<\/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-242191","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\/242191","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=242191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}