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Caltech Mathathon – first hackathon ever devoted to research level mathematics
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40 hours, $2M+ AI credits, solve an open problem. AI has made groundbreaking progress in pure math in the past few months: - May 20, 2026: Erdos's planar unit-distance conjecture was disproved (open 80 years)[1]. - August 1, 2026: The first explicit non-sofic group was constructed (open 27 years)[2]. - August 23, 2026: The six-sphere was shown to admit a complex structure (open 78 years; unverifie...
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