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Re:Lean 4.0.0, first official lean4 release by jhanschoo on Friday September 08, 2023 @04:09AM (#37430903)
I agree that there's generally too little results in mathlib and for that matter in any theorem prover, but I didn't think that work on formalizing such stuff (advanced undergrad results / early grad results) is publishable. Was I wrong in this?
Re:Lean 4.0.0, first official lean4 release by zozbot234 on Friday September 08, 2023 @06:00AM (#37431673)
There are plenty of published papers about newly formalized proofs, even in "undergrad" math. A formal proof development generally brings to light new information about the original proof, both by plugging all potential inaccuracies/missing steps and in being especially easy to refactor, abstracting out common patterns that might be reused elsewhere.