A virtual workshop on computer-checked mathematics — [13–17 July 2020]
Lean is a proof assistant. This means that you can use it to explain mathematics to a computer, and the computer will check everything makes sense. This workshop is intended for mathematicians who use Lean or wish to learn Lean. We will have introductory tutorials, presentations, and break-out sessions for specific areas of interest as directed by the attendees. Experienced users will be available to answer questions, supervise exercises sessions, and participate in pair programming.
There is no initial knowledge needed; everyone is welcome. Intermediate users will be able to start pair programming immediately while beginners will first learn the basics, including installing the software and its supporting tools.
The Lean theorem prover is a young theorem prover developed mostly by Leonardo de Moura at Microsoft Research. Over the past two years it has attracted the attention of mathematicians. Notable highlights include the formalisation of the independence of the continuum hypothesis, the cap-set problem, the definition of manifolds (with boundaries/corners/etc), and the definition of schemes and perfectoid spaces.
Beyond technical aspects, a large part of Lean’s appeal to mathematicians comes from its very active and friendly community of users which, compared to other proof assistants, has a very strong focus on mathematics instead of computer science and software engineering.
Although this event was originally intended to happen in Freiburg, the Covid pandemic turned it into a virtual meeting. See the participants and schedule pages for details.
Main organisation by: Johan Commelin and Patrick Massot.
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