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FORMALIZING FERMAT'S LAST THEOREM

anthropic.com11 min read

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Claude successfully created the first complete computer-verified proof of Fermat's Last Theorem in 11 days using Lean, automating the complex task initially proven manually by Andrew Wiles in 1995. The proof, verified via Prove2Me and Lean, involved 13 million lines of code and proved 29,500 intermediate theorems, proving AI's potential to ease the traditionally laborious formal verification of mathematical proofs.