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+-   Towards a Wiki for Formally-Verified Mathematics -> on Tuesday September 30 2008, @06:18AM Anonymous Coward

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 30 2008, @06:18AM
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An anonymous reader writes "Cameron Freer, an instructor in pure mathematics at MIT, is working on an intriguing project called vdash.org (video from O'Reilly Ignite Boston 4): a math wiki which only allows true theorems to be added! Based on Isabelle, a free-software theorem prover, the wiki will state all of known mathematics in a machine-readable language and verify all theorems for correctness, thus providing a knowledge base for interactive proof assistants. In addition to its benefits for education and research, such a project could reveal undiscovered connections between fields of mathematics, thus advancing some fields with no further work being necessary."
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