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I'm not quite sure what you're asking about. I'm saying that we can't yet take the Wiles and Taylor-Wiles proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, feed it into a machine, and get a Lean proof of Fermat's Last Theorem.


I think the GP might have been responding to the GGP, not to your statement in the article.


I remember asking Bob Solovay whether he thought Wiles' proof of FLT was within reach of formalization and he said something like: it is probably 20 years away. It may have been 20 years since I asked him that, and seeing this recent work with Lean makes me think FLT might also be doable, which would make Solovay's guess just about spot on.


Hi Kevin,

Yes, I was responding to the person who said “we're closer to this than people realize” hoping to learn what they had in mind.




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