Office of Justin Sun names three mathematicians as Justin Sun Prize recipients

The Office of Justin Sun announced on October 5, 2026 from Geneva that independent researcher Wouter van Doorn, mathematics Ph.D. student Quanyu Tang and mathematics researcher Yanyang Li of Nanjing's Southeast University are the newest recipients of the Justin Sun Prize, for contributions spanning six Erdős problems. NewsBTC described the round as recognising human–AI collaboration, and said Tang's work covers number theory, combinatorics and AI-assisted mathematical discovery, while Van Doorn is an independent number theorist who started publishing after undergraduate study in 2010 and left academia after a master's degree. Erdős problems are questions posed or popularised by Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős, and the catalogue maintained by Thomas Bloom of the University of Manchester lists more than 1,200 of them. Protos, writing on October 8, said six problems have been solved by three individuals according to the award's website, and that the prize was announced as equivalent to a million dollars in stablecoins. Protos reported that the million-Tether or USDC awards apply only to seven problems characterised as pinnacle problems, and that the site's promised five categories leave the 1,015 remaining problems without stated compensation beyond a capital allocation to be determined by an Academic Committee whose membership Protos said is not stated. No source gave a dollar amount for these three recipients.