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When Automated Proofs Leave Mathematicians Grieving
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Mathematicians often pursue proofs not just for the answer, but for transferable structural understanding. When an unreleased OpenAI model coordinated ten thousand agents over eighty-eight hours to claim a Lean-formalized proof for Navier–Stokes, the reaction across the field combined astonishment with deep grief. This discussion explores the rigor of formal verification, why deductive certainty…