The man paid to prove Fermat by hand says Claude did it in 11 days
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A mathematician holds a five-year grant to formalise Fermat’s Last Theorem. It has been done for him in eleven days, and he says the result tells us nothing about mathematics. Anthropic published the proof on Friday. Dozens of Claude agents wrote 13 million lines of Lean code and proved 30,300 intermediate theorems. They used 29,500 […] This story…