Beyond Computation: How Neel Somani and ChatGPT Are Rewriting Mathematics
California, US, 4th February 2026, ZEX PR WIRE, For decades, the “Erdős problems”, a collection of over 1,000 mathematical conjectures posed by the legendary Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős, have served as a rigorous proving ground for the world’s brightest human minds. They range from deceptively simple number theory puzzles to complex combinatorial nightmares.
For a long time, the consensus was that Artificial Intelligence could handle calculation, but not creation. It could crunch numbers, but it couldn’t reason through abstract proofs.
That consensus just shattered.
Over a single weekend, Neel Somani, a software engineer and founder of the blockchain platform Eclipse, utilized OpenAI’s GPT 5.2 Pro to crack open Erdos problems that had remained unsolved for years. This wasn’t a case ...
