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Formalizing all of mathematics as an infrastructure project

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Welcome to September 6, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

Once machines can autoformalize at the scale of millions of lines, translating the whole human mathematical corpus into machine-checkable form stops being a fantasy and becomes a schedulable program with a budget.

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2026-09-06: A mathematician calls for all human mathematics formalized in a year

2026-09-06: Agents write 13 million lines of Lean for the first checked Fermat proof

2026-08-04: Mathematics uploads spike while budgets flatline, and 312 problems are resolved

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Formalizing all of mathematics as an infrastructure project
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