Lean Co-creator Jeremy Avigad on AI, Verification, and the Future of Mathematics
EchoShao8899 · x · 2026-10-11
- Augmented Mind Podcast EP05 features Jeremy Avigad (CMU, co-creator of the Lean Theorem Prover, director of the Hoskinson Center for Formal Mathematics) on mathematics in the AI era — recently re-shared amid the wave of AI-and-math news.
- The conversation traces: history of AI for math → formalization and computer-aided proof → the birth of Lean → Lean Blueprints, training models with Lean, and agentic systems → making AI genuinely useful to mathematicians.
- Also covers the verification gap in human-AI collaboration, the future of math education, capital and math startups; core theme: 'It's our mathematics, and us doing mathematics.'
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