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wiz21ctoday at 6:10 PM1 replyview on HN

I'm not a mathematician and AI doesn't answer very well. Could someone tell us how big an endeavour this is: https://github.com/ImperialCollegeLondon/FLT ?

(the site is : "An ongoing multi-author open source project to formalise a proof of Fermat's Last Theorem in the Lean theorem prover.")


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jfengeltoday at 8:21 PM

Enormous.

Wiles' proof is 129 pages long, and builds on results that require a vast amount of infrastructure to define.

It's going to take dozens of person-years.