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Autoformalization of Fermat's Last Theorem
15 September 2026

Autoformalization of Fermat's Last Theorem

Iowa Type Theory Commute

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In this episode, I reflect on the recent announcement that Anthropic researchers have autoformalized the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem.  That is, they instructed an LLM to create a computer-checkable proof, in the Lean prover, of this theorem, following existing paper proofs in the literature.  The resulting proof weighs in at 13 million lines of Lean, a staggering amount.