AI Co-Mathematician: Accelerating Mathematicians with Agentic AI

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This paper introduces the AI Co-Mathematician, a workbench that uses agentic AI to support mathematicians in open-ended research tasks like ideation and theorem proving. Early tests show the system achieving state-of-the-art results on hard problem-solving benchmarks, including a 48% score on FrontierMath Tier 4.

We introduce the AI co-mathematician, a workbench for mathematicians to interactively leverage AI agents to pursue open-ended research. The AI co-mathematician is optimized to provide holistic support for the exploratory and iterative reality of mathematical workflows, including ideation, literature search, computational exploration, theorem proving and theory building. By providing an asynchronous, stateful workspace that manages uncertainty, refines user intent, tracks failed hypotheses, and outputs native mathematical artifacts, the system mirrors human collaborative workflows. In early tests, the AI co-mathematician helped researchers solve open problems, identify new research directions, and uncover overlooked literature references. Besides demonstrating a highly interactive paradigm for AI-assisted mathematical discovery, the AI co-mathematician also achieves state of the art results on hard problem-solving benchmarks, including scoring 48% on FrontierMath Tier 4, a new high score among all AI systems evaluated.
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WeintroducetheAIco-mathematician,aworkbenchformathematicianstointeractivelyleverageAIagentstopursueopen-endedresearch.TheAIco-mathematicianisoptimizedtoprovideholisticsupportfortheexploratoryanditerativerealityofmathematicalworkflows,includingideation,literaturesearch,computationalexploration,theoremprovingandtheorybuilding.Byprovidinganasynchronous,statefulworkspacethatmanagesuncertainty,refinesuserintent,tracksfailedhypotheses,andoutputsnativemathematicalartifacts,thesystemmirrorshumancollaborativeworkflows.Inearlytests,theAIco-mathematicianhelpedresearcherssolveopenproblems,identifynewresearchdirections,anduncoveroverlookedliteraturereferences.BesidesdemonstratingahighlyinteractiveparadigmforAI-assistedmathematicaldiscovery,theAIco-mathematicianalsoachievesstateoftheartresultsonhardproblem-solvingbenchmarks,includingscoring48%onFrontierMathTier4,anewhighscoreamongallAIsystemsevaluated.

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