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Developing Mathlib enables Lean to express deep, frontier-level abstract mathematics beyond combinatorial results such as the four-color theorem and Kepler's conjecture.
Unresolved speaker · Mathematics Just Changed Forever — Kevin Hartnett · 26 Oct 2026
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“That's kind of the re-- that's how Lean breaks beyond just these combinatorial results like the four-color theorem and Kepler's conjecture and becomes a place where you can express very deep, kind of frontier-level abstract math.”31:36Report a misattribution
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