Classification of Finite Simple Groups Formalized in Lean
pfdietz · hn · 2026-10-28
A Hacker News post highlights that the Classification of Finite Simple Groups — the enormous theorem whose proof spans tens of thousands of pages — has been formalized in the Lean theorem prover, with the project live at cfsg.axiommath.ai. The full proof chain is now machine-verified.
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