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Re:Why the Legendary Erdős Problems Are Falling to AI by kadoban on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @12:07PM (#49184787)
> What practical things are possible or might be possible due to these results?

Not much, they're all fairly minor problems that have been solved, of ~entirely niche academic interest. It's so far more just that AI _can_ solve novel math problems, ones that humans didn't accidentally train the answer in and it just spit it back out.

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Re:Why the Legendary Erdős Problems Are Falling to AI by mrkandel on Friday August 07, 2026 @08:01AM (#49209093)
Sofic groups are a pretty big things in group theory. Its the big project of one of one of our researchers.

I have no idea what it's about because im not in algebra but the algebraists say its a big thing.

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