The Future of Mathematics?
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Buzzard describes formalizing existing mathematics in Lean as groundwork for a connected mathematical library, and discusses the effort and trust that requires.
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Before we can start
proving new theorems, we need to be able to
state old theoremsYou should get them to formalize
stuff that they understand.a database of stuff and a database of links
between that stuff.First, they understand it, then they formalize itwe need to be able to state old theorems