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Tagged universal-algebra — 1 entry. Clear

Sixty years no human could prove that Robbins' weak axiom yields Boolean algebra; in 1996 the EQP prover found the fourteen-step proof alone. The first machine-proved landmark theorem.

Posed by Herbert Robbins · 1933 · Logic / universal algebra · resolved 1996 · difficulty 3/5

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