Justin Sun Prize’s New Round Honors Human–AI Collaboration on Erdős Problems
Key Summary
Justin Sun's Office has awarded the Justin Sun Prize to three researchers, Wouter van Doorn, Quanyu Tang, and Yanyang Li, for their contributions to solving six Erdős problems. Van Doorn, an independent number theorist, and Tang, a Ph.D. student at the University of Science and Technology of China, collaborated with Li to solve Erdős Problem #650, utilizing human judgment and AI-assisted discovery. Tang separately resolved Erdős Problem #1044 and contributed to the solution of #1196. The prize, established by Justin Sun, recognizes mathematical discovery and the work needed to make proofs independently checkable, with awards paid out in USDT or USDC.
The Office of Justin Sun today announced the newest recipients of the Justin Sun Prize: independent researcher Wouter van Doorn, mathematics Ph.D. student Quanyu Tang, and mathematics researcher Yanyang Li from Nanjing’s Southeast University, recognized for contributions spanning six Erdős problems. Wouter van Doorn is an independent number theorist who began researching mathematics as an