Lean is a lovely language ecosystem, as Tao clearly demonstrates though, LLMs can struggle with it. The language and the tooling is designed heavily around not merely text code, but continuous feedback from a specialized shell, though Tao attributes the issue to another condition, that there are two acutely similar versions of the language.
Can someone provide a tl;dr on him/why he’s important?
Gauss 2.0; He’s very prolific, very famous in the math community. In this context, he is noteworthy because he’s taking automated theorem proving seriously which destigmatizes it for other pure mathematicians.
Fields medal winner. Arguably the greatest living mathematician.
Some would argue more for Wiles or Perelman on account of solving long-standing conjectures.
Top three greatest living mathematician, perhaps?
I think what gives Tao the title is how multidisciplinary he is. He can wander in to a new subfield of mathematics and start making SOTA contributions after not very much time, which is a rare thing.
Yes, google can provide that in like 3 seconds, human parsing included.