The developers at Axiom Math used an AI system to transform a century-defining mathematical discovery into the Lean formal language. The system, called AxiomProver, verifies that the recurring small gaps between prime numbers are bounded by 246, the lowest limit established by human mathematicians to date. This machine-checked proof is the closest the field has come to proving the Twin Prime Conjecture.

The theorem originated 13 years ago when Yitang Zhang first proved that these gaps were bounded by 70 million. Axiom Math also released PrimeGapsLib, an open-source library of reusable components designed to let the research community inspect the proof and build upon the formal infrastructure.

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