Anthropic claims Claude autonomously formalized Fermat's Last Theorem proof in Lean over 11 days

Anthropic claims Claude autonomously formalized Fermat's Last Theorem proof in Lean over 11 days.

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Anthropic said that its AI model Claude worked largely autonomously over 11 days to formalize the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem in the Lean programming language. ^[1] Anthropic announced that one of its internal models, using the prove2.me platform, formalized a complete proof of Fermat's Last Theorem in Lean, completing Freek Wiedijk's list of 100 formalization challenges. ^[2] The codebase for the formalization is over 13.4 million lines of code and takes nearly 20 times as long to compile as Lean's mathematics library, according to the article's author who compiled it. ^[3] The formalized proof follows the Darmon-Diamond-Taylor 1995 exposition of the Wiles-Taylor-Wiles argument, using the Langlands-Tunnell theorem and Ribet's level-lowering theorem. ^[4] The article's author, funded by the EPSRC to formalize a proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, said the Anthropic work does not make his project redundant because he also promised to make pull requests to Lean's mathematics library and create a dynamic document for humans to explore the modern proof. ^[5]

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Anthropic said that its AI model Claude worked largely autonomously over 11 days to formalize the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem in the Lean programming language. · techmeme.com
Anthropic announced that one of its internal models, using the prove2.me platform, formalized a complete proof of Fermat's Last Theorem in Lean, completing Freek Wiedijk's list of 100 formalization challenges. · Xena
The codebase for the formalization is over 13.4 million lines of code and takes nearly 20 times as long to compile as Lean's mathematics library, according to the article's author who compiled it. · Xena
The formalized proof follows the Darmon-Diamond-Taylor 1995 exposition of the Wiles-Taylor-Wiles argument, using the Langlands-Tunnell theorem and Ribet's level-lowering theorem. · Xena
The article's author, funded by the EPSRC to formalize a proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, said the Anthropic work does not make his project redundant because he also promised to make pull requests to Lean's mathematics library and create a dynamic document for humans to explore the modern proof. · Xena

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