The Future of Mathematics?

Why HN readers recommended it

Recommended as the clearest mathematician's perspective on formal proof assistants and why mathematics should be formalized.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Microsoft Research

Topic

formal mathematics with lean

Format

talk

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

9

HN mentions in dataset

14

Recommendation years in dataset

2019–2025

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From the original HN conversations

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• I was watching a video by Kevin Buzzard, he talks about using Lean Theorem Prover, seems pretty interesting [VIDEO]

• Last week Microsoft Research posted an interesting talk by Kevin Buzzard [1] from Imperial College London about how he wants to formalize all mathematics with theorem provers. He's currently using LEAN [2]. Half of the talk is a discussion of the challenges he's faced convincing …

• For a perspective of a mathematician that came to evangelize theorem provers, I recommend Kevin Buzzard's MS 2019-09 presentation [0] about LEAN. He highlights cultural misunderstanding and apathy on both sides of the domain divide. He also references the idea that the people who might …