Yoav Goldberg asks whether Lean proofs can constitute genuinely novel mathematics
yoavgo · x · 2026-09-14
In a discussion about Lean-formalized proofs, AI researcher yoavgo raises a higher-level question: to what extent can Lean proofs be novel mathematics? Are the building blocks low-level enough to express things we don't yet know — e.g., can human-invented new techniques be expressed in them?
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