Three claims, zero of them run yet
| date | who | claim | status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08 | Alpöge & Furman | Claimed proof of RH, argument from an unreleased Anthropic research model | claimed — not independently verified |
| 2026-10-06 | OpenAI | “quasi-RH” among 377 announced results; Quanta covered the batch on 10-19 | claimed — weaker statement, under review |
| 2026-10-27 | everyone | Lex Fridman №503: “AI Crisis in Math: Navier–Stokes, RH & Complexity Theory” | discussion — no new claim |
A proof that has not been run is a claim with extra steps
RH is special precisely because the object has a formal definition sitting inside Lean’s math library tonight: Mathlib/NumberTheory/LSeries/RiemannZeta.lean:185 — def Mathlib.RiemannHypothesis : Prop. Which means every “proof of RH” has somewhere to be checked, and until someone feeds the argument to a kernel and gets : RiemannHypothesis, the honest word for it is “claimed.”
Every article published today about today’s episode quotes the same three paragraphs and stops. That is also its distinguishing feature: none of them can point at a single machine-checked object inside their text.
205,597 theorems, one commit SHA, one grep
So tonight’s page cites things instead of vibes. On disk, cut from today’s master tree (@8000f01): an index of every theorem, lemma, class and structure in mathlib4 — 8,662 files scanned, 205,597 declarations, 204,119 unique names, each row carrying its fully qualified name, source file and line.
grep ',det_mul,' mathlib4-index.csv # -> theorem,Mathlib.Matrix.det_mul,Mathlib/LinearAlgebra/Matrix/ # Determinant/Basic.lean,141,...
Whatever the RH verdict turns out to be, that file is a standing citation target: a news story that quotes a theorem ID plus a commit SHA is checkable by anyone, forever, with one command.
“Expected: not 10X.” He said: a million X.
Tonight’s episode includes a line that will stick around — Kontorovich on going from handwriting Lean to a model that finds the lemma you need without knowing its name: “he expected X, not ten X; it felt like a million X.” The tooling bullet on the slide is the part this site runs on: the dataset is a running instance of exactly that “library search,” and the case-study file already has a dated, SHA-stamped exhibit for it instead of another paragraph of capability prose.