3 months of Claude Code on Erdős #993 — a full proof appeared last week

Odd-Sympathy1274 · reddit · 2026-10-05

A Reddit user has had Claude Code and Codex grinding since July on Erdős Problem #993 (unimodality of the independent-set sequence of trees, posed 1987). A literature check today found a complete proof posted last week by Tong Zhang and Wei Li, with two Lean 4 formalizations already claiming clean builds. Not yet peer-reviewed; links to the Zenodo paper, two GitHub Lean repos, and the erdosproblems.com page.

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