<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: fspeech</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=fspeech</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 04:09:11 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=fspeech" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fspeech in "Sharing AI progress in mathematics"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Fun challenge: find the formal definition of simple_closed_curve in the essay and tell me if you believe you learned anything about a planar curve.<p>BTW the essay is eminently readable for anyone interested in math. Hales wrote it in favor of formalized math and to educate his peers and students about it.</p>
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<p>If you actually looked into how agents proved FLT you would be even more amazed by the fellow human beings who are able to keep all this in their heads! I for one can only begin to grasp the scope with AI and scripts.</p>
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<p>AI is very helpful with understanding AI proofs. Agent swarms produce messy proofs overall but locally they are excellent and can teach anyone who wants to study them. No one controls math (in a material way funders do control an aspect of practicing math). Still, theorems are already true before we prove them. The difference a proof makes is whether it convinces the reader.</p>
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<p>I think it would be helpful to people who want to understand what a formalized proof is to read Thomas Hales on this: <a href="https://www.math.stonybrook.edu/~bishop/classes/math536.S24/Hales_AMM.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www.math.stonybrook.edu/~bishop/classes/math536.S24/...</a><p>He spent years formalizing his sphere packing theorem because the proof (human produced) was already beyond the ability of peer reviews. Now his formalization effort likely can be easily reproduced by a model. However one should read his experience about what a formal proof is: often the problem is the statement not the proof. The example he gave is the Jordan curve theorem. It's actually quite challenging to formalize the concept of a planar curve (there are space filling curves). So it is not necessary that someone can look at a formal statement and say aha it is about a planar curve, unlike FLT where there is not much problem in recognizing what the statement is about.</p>
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<p>Whoever wants to study the result.</p>
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<p>This doesn't contradict what I said. But I do appreciate the fact AI can produce side effects not just humans. I made it sound like only human knowledges matter. That's too narrow.</p>
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<p>I didn't say that. I am responding to "In a way this is probably 50-100 years of math progress by humans." I am actually very excited about AI proof and I am working overtime in my own way to try to comprehend as much as I can.</p>
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<p>FLT was no less a tautology before it was proved. We just weren't sure about it. Proofs only change us, not math.</p>
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<p>True.</p>
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<p>If it changes how we think then yes it has an effect.</p>
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<p>Another way to state this: math theorems are like programs without side effects; it is immaterial whether a program without side effects is ever run. We study math for the side effects: it changes how we organize our thoughts.</p>
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<p>Math is the tool humans use to compress knowledge. So until we can comprehend it there really isn't much progress. Math theorems are tautologies, the truth of which are not dependent on proofs and proofs are erasable, at least classically. But the AI progress is exciting and AI proofs are a gold mine for humans (at least non domain experts) to explore.</p>
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<p>Light slows down in dielectric materials because as an em wave it interacts with the polarization of molecules. Neutrino has very little interaction with matter, OTOH.</p>
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<p>LLMs like even the sota flash models have great range of background math knowledge and have no problem reading and understanding flt level of math. On the other hand you don't want to go through 13 million lines of often repetitive code line by line. Models are great at synthesizing math content out of code. My contribution is to steer it through subjects of most interests to me, drill down into jargons that can be confusing, be creative in using computation for illustration (which coding agents can execute very proficiently) etc.</p>
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<p>I enjoy learning math from LLM proofs with the help of LLMs <a href="https://github.com/htzh/flt_for_human" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/htzh/flt_for_human</a> . It is amazing how well models do when they are well grounded by formalized proof traces (even if created by other models).</p>
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<p>Proofs are erasable. If you don't doubt it exists why do you care? Understanding is a side effect. Only people who want to understand the proof would need to care about it.</p>
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<p>I don't think the truth of the theorem is ever in doubt so any attack would be silly. But the proof would enable tutorials like this: <a href="https://github.com/htzh/flt_for_human/blob/main/math/001-frey-package-wlog.md" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/htzh/flt_for_human/blob/main/math/001-fre...</a>
which would be hard to do without a proof outline as agents are not good at math per se, even though they are very knowledgeable and capable.</p>
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<p>The webpages are entirely generated without a binary build (a build from scratch is quite daunting as stated in the project readme) of Lean artifacts. See <a href="https://github.com/anthropics/fermats-last-theorem/blob/main/tools/docs-site/README.md" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/anthropics/fermats-last-theorem/blob/main...</a></p>
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<p>To really read the proof, clone the repo and drop the root index.html into your browser and enjoy. Due to the large amount of files in a directory Github won't serve the .lean files in Theorems/ beyond A. Github preview won't work with the htmls beyond the few top level docs either.</p>
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<p>Nice to get some resonance. And if I may, past --> taste; vision --> future. And to compensate for our poor memory, taste<=>value network while vision<=>policy network, borrowing from RL parlance.</p>
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