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Re:ProofWiki: Online compendium of mathematical proofs
on Sunday February 04, 2024 @05:05PM (#39255004)
Be careful. While a proof in Lean is executable (it is a script, so to speak) it is conceptually a sequence of references to tactics. Writing a Lean proof does involve a highly specialised form of functional programming, but I wouldn't be at all sure that becoming an expert in Lean would improve your programming skills across the board.
Your comment also reminds me of the people who claim that the Curry-Howard isomorphism means "programming is math". It's not a claim that anyone should really be making in good faith. There's a lot more to programming than the lambda calculus.
Re:A Little Closer to Finding What Became of M. Schönfinkel Inventor o...
on Friday February 02, 2024 @05:39PM (#39235426)
Quite frankly, the Wikipedia page should tell anyone everything they could want to know (for starters).
Re:Constructing a Four-Point Egg
on Wednesday January 31, 2024 @03:03PM (#39208625)
I don't know exactly what you mean, but the name of this shape is consistent with the naming of traditional geometric constructions like the "five-centered arch" and the "three-centered arch" (see many diagrams online for details of these constructions).
So "four-centered egg" might make more sense to you, though it could also be called the "six-centered egg", because it includes both sides, unlike the classical arch constructions.