The problems solved by AI with Lean proof assistants often exhibit patterns (like ellipses, Platonic solids, or geometric constructions) that a sufficiently clever mathematician could recognize as significant, but if latent in Lean code, these patterns might be invisible because constructions that later prove to have unifying power often appear unassuming in formal notation.

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Terence Tao

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if you come up with the equivalent of Descartes' idea that you can have a coordinate system unifying algebra and geometry, in Lean code it would just look like R→R, and it wouldn't look that significant.

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Terence Tao – How the world’s top mathematician uses AIDwarkesh Patel
Created: 8/12/2026, 6:05:48 PM

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