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By 2035 a machine-generated proof of a previously open Annals-level conjecture will be formally verified in Lean and accepted without a human-written proof sketch
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[+0] Kernel-level trust in Lean is illusory because every large formalization to date has relied on axioms or porting steps outside the verified core [i] formal-verification logic
[+0] Community acceptance of a proof has historically required a human-comprehensible narrative, as shown by the 14-year gap in the Kepler conjecture case [i] mathematics philosophy-of-science sociology
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[+0] No automated system has produced a proof requiring a definition absent from its training library, across 11 documented research-level attempts [i] formal-verification mathematics
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