JonahSinick comments on Progress on automated mathematical theorem proving? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: JonahSinick 03 July 2013 10:25:45PM 3 points [-]

Also note that the Sylow theorems are, in some sense, a pretty low bar. Compare with the Feit-Thompson Theorem, which has a proof running 250 pages, and which builds on previously known results. I have a friend who's a finite group theorist who said that in many cases he struggled to verify the truth of individual lines of the proof.