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Topic: How to prove the sum of cubes formula in Lean 4?
decade_g (Jun 18 2025 at 15:25):
import Mathlib
-- 1³ + 2³ + ... + n³ = (n(n+1)/2)²
lemma sum_cubes (i:ℕ) :∑ j ∈ Finset.Icc 1 i, (j:ℝ)^3 = ((i * (i + 1)) / 2)^2 := by
sorry
Kenny Lau (Jun 18 2025 at 15:29):
As always, the advice is to try to prove it on paper first.
decade_g (Jun 18 2025 at 15:34):
Kenny Lau 发言道:
As always, the advice is to try to prove it on paper first.
I might not have expressed my question clearly. What I meant to ask is whether there is a directly usable theorem in mathlib. I tried exact? but didn’t get an answer.
Kenny Lau (Jun 18 2025 at 15:37):
Kenny Lau (Jun 18 2025 at 15:37):
there's this for sum of powers in general
Kenny Lau (Jun 18 2025 at 15:38):
decade_g said:
I might not have expressed my question clearly. What I meant to ask is whether there is a directly usable theorem in mathlib. I tried
exact?but didn’t get an answer.
You might want to ask this in #Is there code for X? next time
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