Lean (proof assistant)
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Lean (proof assistant) has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including Lex Fridman Podcast. 1 person has made recorded remarks about it.
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Alex KontorovichNumber theorist at Rutgers University working on the Riemann hypothesis and the Lean proof assistant
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
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- Lex Fridman Podcast · 1 episode
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#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.