What Alex Kontorovich has said about Lean (proof assistant)
1 quote · 1 episode · Oct 26, 2026
Alex Kontorovich, Number theorist at Rutgers University working on the Riemann hypothesis and the Lean proof assistant, has been quoted on Lean (proof assistant) once in 1 episode of Lex Fridman Podcast, most recently on October 26, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Kontorovich concludes after the Fermat's Last Theorem formalization that autoformalization of human-written proofs into Lean is essentially solved.
“can you get a sorry free proof of something that human beings have written down on paper? I think that problem is”
Lex Fridman Podcast: #503 – AI Crisis in Math: Navier-Stokes, Riemann Hypothesis & Complexity Theory (Oct 26, 2026) · Listen from 1:26:46
Episodes
#503 – AI Crisis in Math: Navier-Stokes, Riemann Hypothesis & Complexity TheoryLex Fridman Podcast · Oct 26, 2026 · 3 h 43 min
Lex Fridman and mathematicians Alex Kontorovich, Ankur Moitra and Steven Brunton discuss AI's claimed proofs of quasi-Riemann, Navier-Stokes, unique games and what it means for mathematics.
Alex Kontorovich on other topics
- Mathematics education · 2 quotes
- Riemann hypothesis · 2 quotes
- Artificial intelligence · 2 quotes
- Fields Medal · 1 quote
- Fermat's Last Theorem · 1 quote