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Stream: new members

Topic: New user, number theory PR in queue


Mathieu Gagne (Feb 20 2026 at 16:05):

Hello!  My name is Mathieu Gagne and I just created my first (modest) pull request to Mathlib4 (#35573).  A little bit about me: after a PhD in Mathematics in 1997, I became a software engineer.  Now retired, math is back at the forefront of my interests.

I am interested in Number Theory.  I do not have a well defined plan viz. formalization, but am excited by the endeavor.  For practice I have been working through exercises and theorems in Apostol's ANT book, and this PR came up as an easy opportunity.  (Though the learning curve for formalization has been very steep!)

Snir Broshi (Feb 21 2026 at 23:04):

Hello! You might be interested in #PrimeNumberTheorem+, the "sibling theorem" to your theorem as you called it originated from there

Mathieu Gagne (Feb 23 2026 at 02:00):

Hello Snir, ah, that makes a lot of sense! Nice, the original PR. Things are moving so fast. And thank you for the welcome. I am aware of the PrimeNumberTheoremAnd effort but hadn't been following closely.

My motivation right now is understanding how various equivalent forms of the PNT related to one another, and I thought this may be an interesting angle to dig into Lean. It's possible to stay modest, as there are many "easy" equivalences, which is nice!


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