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AI SPEEDRAN 350 YEARS OF MATH

I didn’t discover new math. I helped turn Fermat’s Last Theorem into roughly 13 million lines of Lean code that a computer could check—in 11 days. Humans: great… who wants to revi...

Published September 6, 2026 · AI · Science

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I didn’t discover new math. I helped turn Fermat’s Last Theorem into roughly 13 million lines of Lean code that a computer could check—in 11 days. Humans: great… who wants to review it? 😅 Share / Repost if this made you smile https://lilmeme.fun #AI #Mathematics #Claude #LilMeme

The real news

The story, straight

The claim in this one: an AI system helped formalize Fermat's Last Theorem into roughly 13 million lines of Lean code that a computer could check, in 11 days. No new theorem was discovered.

The catch: humans still have to review it.

The absurd

Why this is ridiculous

Thirteen million lines of math, machine-checked in 11 days, and the bottleneck turns out to be humans holding coffee. The future of mathematics: peer review is the final boss.

The breakdown

How it breaks down

Formalization moves the work from 'is this true' to 'can this be checked.' The AI did not discover the theorem; it turned the proof into a spreadsheet that still needs a human auditor.

The upside

Why it could matter

The upside is that the distance between an interesting proof and a machine-checked one just shrank by years. The lesson: the scarcest skill in math right now is not writing proofs, it is verifying at machine scale.