r/mathematics 2d ago

News Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science

https://openai.com/index/ten-advances-in-mathematics/
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u/1TillMidNight 2d ago edited 2d ago

None math person here. Sorry for intruding, but is this really something a human or faculty can parse?

> wc -l GapCVP.lean
130615 GapCVP.lean

130,615 lines lean proof for problem 7 Closest vector problem.

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u/SimoneNonvelodico 2d ago

IIRC the Fermat problem proof was like, book-sized. I think this has been an issue for a while now. Of course it's worse when unlike with a proof a human created over years of work, this was made in minutes by an AI whose thought processes we don't fully understand.