Reposted by Stephen Wilson
Insofar as I understand this paper, the moral seems to be that maths is easy and translation is hard, which I think every mathematician who spends quality time with a translator will find easy to believe.
arxiv.org/abs/2610.08144
arxiv.org
Navier-Stokes lost in translation: Why Lean verification of AI autoformalisation does not guarantee correct natural language proofs
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