Fig. 5: AlphaGeometry discovers a more general theorem than the translated IMO 2004 P1. | Nature

Fig. 5: AlphaGeometry discovers a more general theorem than the translated IMO 2004 P1.

From: Solving olympiad geometry without human demonstrations

Fig. 5

Left, top to bottom, the IMO 2004 P1 stated in natural language, its translated statement and AlphaGeometry solution. Thanks to the traceback algorithm necessary to extract the minimal premises, AlphaGeometry identifies a premise unnecessary for the proof to work: O does not have to be the midpoint of BC for P, B, C to be collinear. Right, top, the original theorem diagram; bottom, the generalized theorem diagram, in which O is freed from its midpoint position and P still stays on line BC. Note that the original problem requires P to be between B and C, a condition where the generalized theorem and solution does not guarantee.

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