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the Dinitz-Garg-Goemans conjecture, a graph theory problem that’s gone unsolved for 30 years, was solved with this prompt

"unsolved for 30 years" makes it sound like hundreds of mathematicians were grinding on this problem constantly for the past three decades like all the others that "AI" has "solved" so far, this one was pretty much sitting on a shelf

I'd also like an actual mathematician to confirm that it's been solved

What, you mean we shouldn't just take the co-founder of an AI startup's word for it? Yes, we need human peer reviewers to confirm that the Lean that was output by the model actually matches the problem.

But if it is correct, it's an achievement of automation and scale. I hate this "unsolved for x years" framing because it implies that someone has been constantly working on it for those years, and no human mathematician could possibly have accomplished this, they were all stumped.

Also, on X The Everything App with a bunch of crypto bros retweeting it for clout should really not be the way that new mathematical proofs are announced.

Agreed, it shouldn't be the way anything's announced really I also find the sheer amount of "yes this has been solved" agreement with no one actually discussing the mathematical process—only the prompts—to be a bit odd