Category Archives: number theory
Liquid tensor experiment
Peter Scholze suggests a mathematical formalization challenge. Continue reading
Teaching dependent type theory to 4 year olds via mathematics
What is the number before 0? Who cares! How do children model numbers? An experiment with type theory. Continue reading
IMO 2019 Q1
Thoughts on doing an IMO problem in Lean Continue reading
Column addition
Lean has two copies of basic number types such as the naturals or integers. The reason is that Lean users might want to do two completely different things with numbers such as these. Some people might want to prove theorems … Continue reading
617 is prime
More number theory today. Clara List and Sangwoo Jo were trying to do a question from the third year number theory example sheet; to work out whether 605 was a square modulo 617. They decided to assume the law of … Continue reading
Quadratic Reciprocity and (p^2-1)/8
The law of quadratic reciprocity. The jewel in the crown of mathematics! Still not proved in Lean! [edit March 2019; QR is now in Lean, thanks to Chris Hughes, but let’s not let that spoil the story.] Clara List and … Continue reading
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