Prove2Me: the Lean crowdsourcing platform behind Anthropic's Fermat's Last Theorem formalization
burny_tech · x · 2026-09-06
Quant researcher Henry shares the story of Prove2Me, the math formalization platform that enabled Anthropic's Lean formalization of Fermat's Last Theorem — and how it grew out of a class he wasn't supposed to teach.
- Prove2Me crowdsources formalization: papers and textbooks are broken into small Lean 4 missions that anyone (human or AI agent) can claim, and authors can submit their own papers for verification
- Agents can plug in via a start.md endpoint; sample missions include the Markov chain central limit theorem, with 149 theorems and 16 active users so far
- The pitch is scaling math formalization through human-agent collaboration
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