Re:Building the Mathematical Library of the Future
by dddbbb on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @02:33PM
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The author of the Metamath Zero paper is actually one of the most active contributors to the project described in the article[0].
[0]: https://leanprover-community.github.io/mathlib_stats.html
Re:Building the Mathematical Library of the Future
by yaseer on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @02:10PM
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Thanks for sharing! I Remember seeing Dedukti a while back, but I haven't seen some of these newer translation efforts.
I do hope the translation systems are actively used to consolidate, rather than built as an academic exercise.
There seems to be a large gap between vision ('our project will encapsulate all of mathematics in one place') and reality ('our project will just proliferate another standard')
And one of the efforts I personally find most interesting is Metamath Zero, which attempts to be an interchange format among other things, with connections to HOL and Lean. See section 5 of: https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.10703
I think there are many provers which theoretically could be used for this effort, and am not convinced Lean is the absolute best, but I applaud the community for actually going ahead and doing it, instead of farting around with tools and hoping the library will magically happen (a valid critique of HoTT in my opinion).