In the News: September 4, 2026
Anthropic says Claude formalized Fermat's Last Theorem in Lean over 11 days, after a DAG of theorem dependencies fixed a multi-agent coordination failure.
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Claude completed the first end-to-end computer-checked proof of Fermat's Last Theorem after Prove2Me added a dependency graph
Working largely autonomously over 11 days, Claude produced the first end-to-end, computer-verified proof of Fermat's Last Theorem in the Lean proof assistant, writing 13 million lines of Lean and proving 30,300 intermediate theorems (29,500…
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