Terence Tao
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I mean, the state of the art in the literature was like 15 equations and sort of how they imply.
That's sort of at the limit of what a human pen and paper can do.
So you need to scale it up
So you need to crowdsource, but you also need to trust all the, I mean, no one person can check 22 million of these proofs.
You need to be computerized.
And so it only became possible with Lean.
We were hoping to use a lot of AI as well.
So the project is almost complete.
So these 22 million, all but two have been settled.
Wow.
Well, actually, and of those two, we have a pen and paper proof.
of the two, and we're formalizing it.
In fact, this morning I was working on finishing it.
So we're almost done on this.
It's incredible.
Yeah, fantastic.
How many people were able to get it?
About 50, which in mathematics is considered a huge number.
It's a huge number.
That's crazy.