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The man paid to prove Fermat by hand says Claude did it in 11 days

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Anthropic's AI agents formalized Fermat's Last Theorem in 11 days by generating 13 million lines of Lean code and proving over 30,000 theorems, surpassing a five-year human project funded with £1m. Kevin Buzzard verified the proof but noted it adds no new mathematics, though it signals a shift toward rapid AI-driven formalization of complex proofs.

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