South Korean ninth grader posts claimed proof about a 62-faced shape
In short
- A South Korean ninth grader says he used Anthropic's Claude to build the proof.
- The claim is that a 62-faced solid cannot pass through a hole in an identical copy of itself.
- The proof has not yet been peer reviewed.
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The claim concerns a 62-faced solid and whether it can pass through an identical copy of itself, a question of pure geometry. The proof has been posted but not yet peer reviewed, so mathematicians have not confirmed it. Whatever the verdict, the story shows a student working on an open problem with an AI assistant.
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A South Korean ninth grader says he used Anthropic's Claude to prove that a 62-faced solid cannot pass through a hole in an identical copy of itself, a claim not yet peer reviewed.
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A boy in South Korea is in ninth grade. He used a computer helper called Claude to work on a puzzle about a shape with 62 flat faces. He wrote down an idea that other maths experts still need to check. Talk about it: what is a puzzle you would like to solve?
