Zulip Chat Archive

Stream: general

Topic: Master's level maths


Bhavik Mehta (Jun 24 2020 at 03:37):

From the Cambridge Part III course list, I was wondering roughly how much of each course has been done in Lean - I believe Category Theory is the highest (around 85% would be my guess), though if we're counting last year's courses then Topics in Set Theory arguably wins from the flypitch project (the course was essentially inner models and forcing for both parts of independence of CH; flypitch obviously does the second but uses forcing instead of inner models for the first, so it's arguable). I'm curious if any other course there comes close to Category Theory on this metric

Scott Morrison (Jun 24 2020 at 03:56):

Algebra / Algebra we've made some progress on.

Scott Morrison (Jun 24 2020 at 03:57):

I guess Lie algebras and algebraic number theory we might make it through the first lecture? :-)

Johan Commelin (Jun 24 2020 at 04:41):

Differential Geometry has quite a bit more done than the first lecture. Maybe something like 15-20%?

Kevin Buzzard (Jun 24 2020 at 06:10):

Once we have six of these courses done recently we can say that we have trained Lean to know as much as Cambridge would expect from a starting PhD student. They would expect a distinction in Part III which would mean top marks in six of these courses


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