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kmill | 7 months ago
Plus, Kevin Buzzard is a world expert with some ideas for how to better organize the proof. In general, formalization leads to new understanding about mathematics.
Something people outside of mathematics don't tend to appreciate is that mathematicians are usually thinking deeply about what we already know, and that work reveals new structures and connections that clarify existing knowledge. The new understanding reveals new gaps in understanding, which are filled in, and the process continues. It's not just about collecting verifiably true things.
Even if somehow the OpenAI algorithm could apply here, we'd get less value out of this whole formalization exercise than to have researchers methodically go through our best understanding of our best proof of FLT again.
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