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A Matter of Interest: Understanding Interestingness of Math Problems in Humans and Language Models

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This paper cites Aristotle: Imo-level automated theorem proving, 2025.

A Matter of Interest: Understanding Interestingness of Math Problems in Humans and Language Models Aristotle: Imo-level automated theorem proving, 2025

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A Matter of Interest: Understanding Interestingness of Math Problems in Humans and Language Models Sparks of artificial general intelligence: Early experiments with gpt-4, 2023

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A Matter of Interest: Understanding Interestingness of Math Problems in Humans and Language Models What makes people think a puzzle is fun to solve? InProceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, volume 47, 2025

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A Matter of Interest: Understanding Interestingness of Math Problems in Humans and Language Models Training verifiers to solve math word problems, 2021

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A Matter of Interest: Understanding Interestingness of Math Problems in Humans and Language Models Building machines that learn and think with people.Nature human behaviour, 8(10):1851–1863, 2024

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A Matter of Interest: Understanding Interestingness of Math Problems in Humans and Language Models Evaluating Language Models' Evaluations of Games

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A Matter of Interest: Understanding Interestingness of Math Problems in Humans and Language Models People use fast and flat simulation to reason about new games

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A Matter of Interest: Understanding Interestingness of Math Problems in Humans and Language Models Automatic concept formation in pure mathematics

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A Matter of Interest: Understanding Interestingness of Math Problems in Humans and Language Models On the notion of interestingness in automated mathematical discovery.International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 53(3):351–375, 2000

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A Matter of Interest: Understanding Interestingness of Math Problems in Humans and Language Models Evaluations of subjective complexity, pleasingness and interestingness for a series of random polygons varying in complexity.Perception & Psychophysics, 2:281–286, 1967

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A Matter of Interest: Understanding Interestingness of Math Problems in Humans and Language Models Role of specific curiosity in school achievement.Journal of Educational Psychology, 59:37–43, 02 1968

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A Matter of Interest: Understanding Interestingness of Math Problems in Humans and Language Models Data for math- ematical copilots: Better ways of presenting proofs for machine learning.arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.15184, 2024

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A Matter of Interest: Understanding Interestingness of Math Problems in Humans and Language Models Smith, Kevin Buzzard, Timothy Gowers, Peter J

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A Matter of Interest: Understanding Interestingness of Math Problems in Humans and Language Models The problem of the problem.New directions for methodology of social and behavioral science: Question framing and response consistency, 11:37–49, 1982

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A Matter of Interest: Understanding Interestingness of Math Problems in Humans and Language Models Frontiermath: A benchmark for evaluating advanced mathematical reasoning in ai, 2025

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A Matter of Interest: Understanding Interestingness of Math Problems in Humans and Language Models A survey on llm-as-a-judge, 2025

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A Matter of Interest: Understanding Interestingness of Math Problems in Humans and Language Models Putnam-axiom: A functional and static benchmark for measuring higher level mathematical reasoning in llms, 2025

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A Matter of Interest: Understanding Interestingness of Math Problems in Humans and Language Models Measuring mathematical problem solving with the math dataset, 2021

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A Matter of Interest: Understanding Interestingness of Math Problems in Humans and Language Models Beauty is not simplicity: An analysis of mathematicians’ proof appraisals†.Philosophia Mathematica, 23(1):87–109, 07 2014

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A Matter of Interest: Understanding Interestingness of Math Problems in Humans and Language Models Ai mathematical olympiad - progress prize 1

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A Matter of Interest: Understanding Interestingness of Math Problems in Humans and Language Models The psychology of curiosity: A review and reinterpretation.Psychological Bulletin, 116(1):75–98, 1994

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A Matter of Interest: Understanding Interestingness of Math Problems in Humans and Language Models Advanced version of gemini with deep think officially achieves gold-medal standard at the international mathematical olympiad, July 2025

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A Matter of Interest: Understanding Interestingness of Math Problems in Humans and Language Models American mathematics competitions (AMC)

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A Matter of Interest: Understanding Interestingness of Math Problems in Humans and Language Models What is a problem that we may solve it?Synthese, pages 85–118, 1981

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A Matter of Interest: Understanding Interestingness of Math Problems in Humans and Language Models Introducing OpenAI o3 and o4-mini

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A Matter of Interest: Understanding Interestingness of Math Problems in Humans and Language Models Prolific

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A Matter of Interest: Understanding Interestingness of Math Problems in Humans and Language Models From calculation to adjudication: Examining llm judges on mathematical reasoning tasks, 2025

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A Matter of Interest: Understanding Interestingness of Math Problems in Humans and Language Models Putnambench: Evaluating neural theorem-provers on the putnam mathematical competition, 2024

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A Matter of Interest: Understanding Interestingness of Math Problems in Humans and Language Models Amplifying human performance in combinatorial competitive programming, 2024

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A Matter of Interest: Understanding Interestingness of Math Problems in Humans and Language Models Meta-reasoning: Deciding which game to play, which problem to solve, and when to quit

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