Who's going to organize the 60th birthday conference for BASIC?? (The first programming language I learned, probably round 1994...)

Fermat's Last Theorem is go!

leanprover-community.github.io/blog/posts/FLT…

Alex Kontorovich More details here leanprover-community.github.io/blog/posts/FLT…

Perhaps, who knows. But this isn't 'new' mathematics; there's a function that translates existing LaTeX into Lean-compiling formal math. At the moment, humans are much better at this, but at a high cost. If AI can get better, who's to say it can't do it...?

But why do we do it, then? For fun!

Congrats again to Kevin Kevin Buzzard on opening the project (which 'formally' only begins in October). Anyone who wants to help should join zulip and get to work! :)

Will AI just do it for us? (Auto-formalize) Who the hell knows (especially 5 years from now!...)

Here are some of the results (from the 80's) that will be 'parked' (until the main modularity work is done):

- Mazur (torsion rank of elliptic curve over Q is bounded by 16)
- cyclic base change (but no longer need Langlands-Tunnell, which was used in the original Wiles…

Just to clarify: The proposed project is to *reduce* FLT (a theorem from the 1990s) to 'mathematics known in the 1980s'.

Unless of course *lots* of humans get involved, and get really good at Lean, in which case things might move quicker.

And of course, another possibility: AI

Kevin Buzzard Kevin Buzzard has opened the FLT project! Have at it, folks! :)

github.com/ImperialColleg…

In just under 24 hours I'll be giving the VaNTAGe seminar sites.google.com/view/vantagese… during which I'll formally open the Lean Fermat's Last Theorem github repo!