Amateur just solved a 60-year-old math problem that stumped experts

{{ Liam Price just cracked a 60-year-old problem that world-class mathematicians have tried and failed to solve. He’s 23 years old and has no advanced mathematics training. What he does have is a $200/month ChatGPT Pro subscription, which gives him access to the latest large language models from OpenAI.||

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Pretty wild that someone outside academia cracked something professionals couldn’t for six decades. Honestly though, it tracks — fresh eyes without the weight of established assumptions can sometimes spot what everyone else keeps walking past. Makes you wonder how many other “unsolvable” problems are just waiting for the right outsider to look at them differently.

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