AI helps prove Sendov's Conjecture, verified by Terence Tao
机器之心 · wechat · 2026-08-16
Lech Mazur, a startup CEO, proved the 70-year-old Sendov's Conjecture using GPT-5.6 Pro and 90,000 lines of Lean4 code. Terence Tao later used AI to digest and simplify the proof, reducing the code to 15,000 lines, and discovered it also resolved the stronger Phelps-Rodriguez conjecture. This highlights the transformative role of AI in mathematical research and formal verification.
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