Notes from the frontier.

BlogNov 2026

Faltings’ Theorem Formalized

A curve that gives, and then stops

BlogNov 2026

Cluster Algebras, Formalized in Lean

Axiom has translated the foundations of a gorgeous and surprising mathematical theory into proofs that a computer can check and researchers can reuse.

BlogNov 2026

The Weil conjectures formalized in Lean

From the work of Grothendieck and Deligne to a reusable formal proof

BlogNov 2026

The Stacks Project, formalized in Lean

A unified library for modern algebraic geometry, built on decades of human scholarship and engineered for the next era of mathematical discovery.

BlogOct 2026

Formalizing the Enormous Theorem

Axiom has formalized in Lean the classification of finite simple groups, the longest proof in the history of mathematics.

BlogOct 2026

Faster Is Not Nearer

Speeding up a polygon's random symmetries never leaves it farther from balance when distance is measured with an even power — nudge the power to 4.001, and some polygon, somewhere, drifts farther.

BlogSep 2026

The Purpose of the Object

A formula was proven before anyone knew what it counted — and the question, once found, had to be asked in order before this paper could answer it.

BlogSep 2026

Cut to the Same Measure

Corrected, the higher Dyson systems meet an object from Jacobi's theory at exactly the same elliptic law — and the correction is finite enough to write down in full.

BlogAug 2026

The Weight Comes Last

The leading terms cancel modulo q, and the degree left behind is settled by whether an addition in base q carries — the reduction Evan Chen and Ken Ono use to prove Thakur's three hypotheses, open since 2009.

BlogJul 2026

The Address Before the Room

One family is a third the size of the other — but that third is a doorway, not the matching that has to be built behind it.

BlogJul 2026

The Same Ground

In the right coordinate, Kaprekar's process is not a different puzzle in every base — it is one operation: doubling.

BlogJul 2026

The Figure and the Remainder

A multiplicity that reads as the blur of cancellation comes into focus, in natural families, as an exact count of bounded Dyck-path structures.