Anthropic model formalizes Fermat's Last Theorem in Lean, closing 20-year 100-theorem benchmark
marc_lelarge · x · 2026-09-05
An internal Anthropic model, using the prove2.me platform, has produced a complete Lean formalization of Fermat's Last Theorem — the final entry in Freek Wiedijk's famous list of 100 formalization challenges, wrapping up the 20-year-old benchmark.
- Mathematician Kevin Buzzard's Xena project blog confirms the authors compiled the codebase and ran the checker successfully.
- The proof follows the 1995 Darmon–Diamond–Taylor exposition of the Wiles–Taylor–Wiles argument, developing Fontaine theory and enough of Mazur's work on the Eisenstein ideal; combined with earlier formalizations for odd regular primes, the result is complete.
- The codebase spans over 13.4 million lines and takes roughly 20x longer to compile than Lean's mathlib on a 96-core machine.
- The author notes the effort beat his own long-running FLT formalization project.
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