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The perfectoid-spaces effort began persuading people that Lean could be used for substantive mathematics.
Unresolved speaker · Mathematics Just Changed Forever — Kevin Hartnett · 26 Oct 2026
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“It boosts Lean's profile. Uh, and it kind of starts to convince people. It starts the process described in the book of convincing people Lean can be used for real math.”39:49Report a misattribution
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