A “proof” of Fermat’s Last Theorem that fits the margin

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Fermat famously claimed to have a “truly marvelous proof” of his Last Theorem, but he never wrote it down, insisting the margin of his page was too narrow to contain it. A few centuries later, Anthropic announced a complete formalization of Fermat’s Last Theorem using 13 million lines of Lean code (clearly not what Fermat intended). Luckily, we found a wonderfully cursed Lean bug, shown below, that suggests the proof may have fit the margin after all. The issue affects all stable versions of Lea...

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