OpenAI says 10,000 of its agents cracked a long-standing math problem in 85 hours and the same method resolved more than 100 others. This month 27 Fields medallists signed a declaration that solving famous problems is not the goal of mathematics; one calls it strip-mining, because good problems are a nonrenewable resource that trains the next generation.
After OpenAI said 10,000 of its agents cracked a long-standing math problem in 85 hours and the same method resolved more than 100 others, 27 Fields medallists signed a declaration this month that solving famous problems is not, in itself, the goal of mathematics; one of them calls the process strip-mining, because good problems are a nonrenewable resource that trains the next generation.
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Much Is Lost by Ceding Math's Hardest Problems to A.I.
The New York Times · Sep 29, 2026
