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A prover settles an open research conjecture unaided

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AxiomProver autonomously generated a Lean proof for Fel's conjecture with no human guidance, possibly the first time an AI system has settled an unsolved research problem in theory-building mathematics.

Reporting date: 2026-02-06 (not necessarily the event date)

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A prover settles an open research conjecture unaided
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Reporting date: 2026-02-06
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-02-06-axiomprover-settles-fels-conjecture
Claim: AxiomProver autonomously generated a Lean proof for Fel's conjecture with no human guidance, possibly the first time an AI system has settled an unsolved research problem in theory-building mathematics.
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- Welcome to February 6, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-february-6-2026
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