Zulip Chat Archive
Stream: new members
Topic: Just starting, have project, need help
Daniel Flath (Aug 07 2025 at 16:44):
LEAN community. I am a mathematician in Tucson, Arizona, USA. I am totally new to this group, with no experience at all with any proof assistant. I have a project that I want to formalize with LEAN. It's the Moebius problem. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/MoebiusProblem.html My work on it so far consists of hundreds of tiny lemmas, each of a similar nature. Before going ahead I would like assurance that errors have not crept in. Also I hope that after verifying what I have done with LEAN that perhaps an AI can find some patterns that I have not identified and help me continue.
How do you suggest I get started? I would probably need a LEAN experienced person to collaborate with me or at least help me get oriented and launched. Any takers? A "bring-your-own-project workshop" if such exists would be helpful.
Thanks in advance for you help and encouragement!
Ruben Van de Velde (Aug 07 2025 at 16:52):
When you say you have a lot of tiny lemmas, do you mean on paper or in lean?
Daniel Flath (Aug 07 2025 at 17:32):
I have them on paper, in Latex. My entire experience with LEAN is stage one
of the Natural Number Game.
Ruben Van de Velde (Aug 07 2025 at 18:18):
That's a good start - maybe #mil is a useful next step
Daniel Flath (Aug 07 2025 at 18:22):
Thanks! I will take a look at #mil
<https://leanprover-community.github.io/mathematics_in_lean/>
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