Presenting this just as "translating into formal language" omits important information.
Lean isn't just a formal language, it is also a theorem prover, Could the IMO participants use the nlinarith tactic? Could they use other tactics?
Of course not, they had to show their work!
Could they have mathematicians translate the problem statements into the formal language for them?
Of course not, they had to do it themselves. In "How to solve it" Polya stresses multiple times that formalizing the initial question is an important part of the process.
Then, the actual computational resources expressed in time are meaningless if one has a massive compute cloud.
I'm a bit dissatisfied with the presentation, same as with the AlphaZero comparison to an obsolete Stockfish version that has been debunked multiple times.
Lean isn't just a formal language, it is also a theorem prover, Could the IMO participants use the nlinarith tactic? Could they use other tactics?
Of course not, they had to show their work!
Could they have mathematicians translate the problem statements into the formal language for them?
Of course not, they had to do it themselves. In "How to solve it" Polya stresses multiple times that formalizing the initial question is an important part of the process.
Then, the actual computational resources expressed in time are meaningless if one has a massive compute cloud.
I'm a bit dissatisfied with the presentation, same as with the AlphaZero comparison to an obsolete Stockfish version that has been debunked multiple times.