Mathematicians confirm OpenAI's Navier-Stokes proof is correct; Lean version compiles
basedjensen · x · 2026-10-12
- Mathematician Obhishek Saha clarifies the controversy: colleagues who examined it closely agree OpenAI's proof is correct, ending circulating skepticism.
- The natural-language proof and the Lean formalization differ: same overall strategy, but key lemmas are stated differently — weaker in Lean, stronger in the natural-language version, where some statements are incorrect or not properly proved.
- The Lean proof compiles, and ongoing scrutiny finds no errors or manipulation of the formal system.
- The proof reportedly contains genuinely new ideas combined in intricate, highly nontrivial ways. basedjensen notes: "I was told AI could not invent new math."
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