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Re:Towards Autonomous Mathematics Research by ndriscoll on Sunday February 15, 2026 @04:45PM (#47027925)
Why would you not have the bot write in a formal language (e.g. Lean) and then just typecheck it? Then you only need to decide that your definitions were interesting. LLMs are now extremely good at programming given a compiler/typechecker, so I'd expect them to be good at formal math as well. It's nearly (if not precisely) the exact same activity.
Re:Towards Autonomous Mathematics Research by Agingcoder on Sunday February 15, 2026 @04:47PM (#47027941)
That’s what they do usually I understand - llm generates proof in lean, and proof checker proves.