Researchers autoformalize Hironaka's 1964 resolution of singularities in Lean
Hidenori8Tanaka · x · 2026-10-07
Jesse Hoogland's team has autoformalized Hironaka's 1964 resolution of singularities theorem in Lean — one of the great mathematical results of the 20th century, showing every singular variety is the "shadow" of a smooth one in higher dimensions. A thread explains the motivation.
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