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Kevin Buzzard encountered difficulty formalizing simple statements in Lean during his first few weeks using it, including proving that one plus one equals two.
Unresolved speaker · Mathematics Just Changed Forever — Kevin Hartnett · 26 Oct 2026
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“Things like one plus one is two. Like, Kevin Buzzard confronts the difficulty of formalizing simple statements in just the first few weeks he's using Lean, where he wants to just convince the program that one plus one is two.”45:46Report a misattribution
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