Claude 用 11 天完成了费马大定理的形式化工作,这一任务原本预计需要人类数年。由于 Lean 系统无法像数学家那样自动补全证明中大量未明说的步骤,每个定义、引理和逻辑环节都必须显式写出并接入仍不完整的形式化库,因此该证明被拆解为数万个可机器校验的片段。这让形式化验证对更多数学领域变得可行,而 AI 产出的证明数量已远超人类可手工审阅的规模。
This will massively solve, the mathematical proof review process bottleneck.
because for humans this process is so hard as normal mathematical proof leaves thousands of steps unstated:
pro mathematicians can infer them, but the Lean system cannot, so every definition, lemma, dependency, and tiny logical step has to be written explicitly and connected to formal libraries that are still incomplete.
So in this of Fermat's Last Theorem, that meant converting a huge modern proof into tens of thousands of machine-checkable pieces, and this work was expected to take years by humans.
But, Claude compressed that years-scale formalization task into 11 days
So now, AI can make formal verification practical for much more mathematics. And this will be so important because we are already seeing that AI increasingly is producing far more proofs than humans can manually review.
来源:@rohanpaul_ai · x.com