Number theory
Date added
$5,226 bounty1 piece from 1 personlast one 2 months ago
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contrib new erdos-1072-parts-iCommand line, then a pull request on GitHub.
1 piece · 18 lemmas
2 Sept 2026
conjectures-tasks
The pinned statement, the Lean challenge file and the exact bundle you build against.
versions/fc-v2-parts-i-2896a88bce4e56122e4d47d3-formalized →
conjectures-contribution
Every published piece for this problem, with its Lean source and its signed record.
contributions/erdos-1072-parts-i →
Formal statement
Proof target
import Mathlib
import FormalConjectures.ErdosProblems.«1072»
import TaskSupport
namespace Bounty
theorem target : fcTypeOfName% "Erdos1072.erdos_1072.parts.i" := by
sorry
end Bounty
Original conjecture (Lean type)
True ↔ {p | Nat.Prime p ∧ Erdos1072.f p = p - 1}.InfiniteOriginal conjecture source: FormalConjectures/ErdosProblems/1072.lean
References
Something wrong with this formalization?
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