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Kevin Buzzard pursued formalizing schemes, an object from algebraic geometry, in Lean as a strategy for demonstrating the value of formalization.
Unresolved speaker · Mathematics Just Changed Forever — Kevin Hartnett · 26 Oct 2026
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“And one of them actually is to formalize a mathematical object called schemes, which is an algebraic geometry. It, uh, comes from Alexander Grothendieck in the mid-20th century.”37:26Report a misattribution
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