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blog — Terence Tao — 16 Oct 2026

How to Formalize All of Mathematics

#proof-verification #mathematical-foundations #formal-methods

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Jeremy Avigad, Kevin Buzzard, Johan Commelin, Rémy Degenne, Kim Morrison, Oliver Nash and Adam Topaz have written a blog post over on Kevin Buzzard’s blog entitled “How to Formalize All of Mathematics”, regarding recent proposals to automatically formalize the entirety of the mathematical literature. The issues regarding formal mathematics are parallel to those regarding informal […]

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