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The Proof in the Code: How a Truth Machine Is Transforming Math and AI

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The inside story of Lean, a computer program that answers the age-old question: How do you know if something is true?

It began as an obscure bug-checking program at Microsoft Research developed by a lone computer engineer named Leo de Moura. Then an unlikely crew of mathematical misfits caught wind of it and began to adopt it with messianic zeal. Their goal was to create a truth machine that could provide the rarest of all commodities in life: a complete, 100 percent guarantee that somethin...