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In the speaker’s account, statements that seem most trivial and obvious to humans are often the hardest to verify in Lean when formalizing informal proofs.
Unresolved speaker · Mathematics Just Changed Forever — Kevin Hartnett · 26 Oct 2026
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“They want, they wanna formalize it in Lean. And what they discover is often it's the most trivial statements that are most obviously true to humans are the hardest to convince Lean are correct.”45:36Report a misattribution
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