ChatGPT Just Solved a 60-Year-Old Math Problem — And a 23-Year-Old 'Vibe Mathematician' Made It Happen
A 23-year-old with no math degree typed an unsolved conjecture into ChatGPT on a Monday afternoon. Eighty minutes later, he had a valid proof that defeated professional mathematicians for sixty years. Fields Medalist Terence Tao confirmed it. The math world is losing its mind. The Kid Who Didn’t Know It Was Hard Liam Price wasn’t trying to make history. He was “vibe mathing” — his term for feeding random open problems into GPT-5.4 Pro to see what happens. He’d been doing it for months with his friend Kevin Barreto, a Cambridge undergrad, pulling unsolved conjectures from erdosproblems.com like lottery tickets. ...