{"slug": "high-school-students-use-ai-to-solve-an-open-problem-in-mathematics", "title": "High school students use AI to solve an open problem in mathematics", "summary": "Two high school students, Aayush Bathija and Prince Rohatgi, working with postdoc Daniel Soskin through the UCLA Math Circle, solved a mathematics problem that Fields Medalist June Huh had previously worked on without solving, according to a post by Quanquan Gu on X. The resulting paper, posted to arXiv as 2609.05341, was heavily AI-assisted. Gu wrote that \"enabling high school students to push the frontier of mathematical research is something worth celebrating.", "body_md": "Quanquan Gu on X: \"Just got this incredible news from UCLA Math Circle.\nTwo high school students, Aayush Bathija and Prince Rohatgi, working with postdoc Daniel Soskin through the UCLA Math Circle, have solved a problem that Fields Medalist June Huh had previously worked on without solving.\nThe p… / X\n\nQuanquan Gu on X: \"Just got this incredible news from UCLA Math Circle.\nTwo high school students, Aayush Bathija and Prince Rohatgi, working with postdoc Daniel Soskin through the UCLA Math Circle, have solved a problem that Fields Medalist June Huh had previously worked on without solving.\nThe paper was heavily AI-assisted.\nWhatever your view on AI in mathematics, enabling high school students to push the frontier of mathematical research is something worth celebrating.\nhttps://t.co/RfvxWXdAeZ\"\n\nJust got this incredible news from UCLA Math Circle.\nTwo high school students, Aayush Bathija and Prince Rohatgi, working with postdoc Daniel Soskin through the UCLA Math Circle, have solved a problem that Fields Medalist June Huh had previously worked on without solving.\nThe paper was heavily AI-assisted.\nWhatever your view on AI in mathematics, enabling high school students to push the frontier of mathematical research is something worth celebrating.\narxiv.org/abs/2609.05341\n\nJust got this incredible news from UCLA Math Circle.\nTwo high school students, Aayush Bathija and Prince Rohatgi, working with postdoc Daniel Soskin through the UCLA Math Circle, have solved a problem that Fields Medalist June Huh had previously worked on without solving.\nThe paper was heavily AI-assisted.\nWhatever your view on AI in mathematics, enabling high school students to push the frontier of mathematical research is something worth celebrating.\narxiv.org/abs/2609.05341", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/high-school-students-use-ai-to-solve-an-open-problem-in-mathematics", "canonical_source": "https://twitter.com/QuanquanGu/status/2098858841903681902", "published_at": "2026-09-12 20:23:46+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-12 20:55:32.688083+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-research", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["Aayush Bathija", "Prince Rohatgi", "Daniel Soskin", "UCLA Math Circle", "June Huh", "Quanquan Gu", "arXiv"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/high-school-students-use-ai-to-solve-an-open-problem-in-mathematics", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/high-school-students-use-ai-to-solve-an-open-problem-in-mathematics.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/high-school-students-use-ai-to-solve-an-open-problem-in-mathematics.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/high-school-students-use-ai-to-solve-an-open-problem-in-mathematics.jsonld"}}