AI Cracks 40-Year-Old Math Puzzle

🔥 What happened A six-person team solved the inverse Galois problem for the sporadic group M23, a mystery open since the 1980s. AI combed through massive symmetry spaces to find the missing polynomial family. 💡 Why it matters M23 was the last of 26 sporadic groups without a known polynomial representation. What once took years was done in under three months—proof that AI can accelerate mathematical discovery. ⚡ Our take If you think AI is just a language model, you're missing the point. Here it cracked a decades-old mathematical dead end in weeks.