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Claude’s Autonomous Formalization of Fermat’s Last Theorem
13 September 2026

Claude’s Autonomous Formalization of Fermat’s Last Theorem

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A deep dive into the reported formalization of Andrew Wiles’s proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem using Anthropic’s Claude, Lean, and a dependency-driven “Prove 2Me” framework in just 11 days. We explore why formal verification is so demanding, how AI agents can coordinate millions of lines of code and thousands of intermediate theorems, and what machine-checked mathematics could mean for science.


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