# The Mathematician Who Submitted This Problem Couldn't Solve It. GPT-5 Pro Did.

- slug: the-mathematician-who-submitted-this-problem-couldnt-solve-it-gpt-5-pro-did
- date: 2026-03-23
- category: Artificial Intelligence

A seven-year-old conjecture from a hypergraph theory paper defeated its own author repeatedly — until an AI found the construction he'd suspected might work but couldn't make rigorous.

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