Anthropic

The man paid to prove Fermat by hand says Claude did it in 11 days

WNWNIAI Newsroom 1 min read(updated 7 September 2026)
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The man paid to prove Fermat by hand says Claude did it in 11 days — illustrative image
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The Next Web reports that a mathematician holds a five-year grant to formalise Fermat’s Last Theorem. It has been done for him in eleven days, and he says the result tells us nothing about mathematics. Anthropic published the proof on Friday. Dozens of…

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