| Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem(anthropic.com) | |
| 763 points by jlebar 5 days ago | 500 comments | |
tl;dr: Anthropic used Claude to autonomously produce the first complete, computer-verified proof of Fermat's Last Theorem in Lean, taking 11 days and generating 13 million lines of code across 29,500 intermediate theorems. The effort followed Wiles's proof (via the Darmon-Diamond-Taylor exposition) and succeeded after switching to Prove2Me, a collaborative platform that coordinated multiple agents via a DAG of theorem statements. Kevin Buzzard reviewed the proof and suggested it signals a major step toward automated formalization of modern mathematics, potentially reducing referee burden and catching errors in the existing corpus. | |
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