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mathlib3

Lean 3's obsolete mathematical components library: please use mathlib4

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Lean 3's obsolete mathematical components library: please use mathlib4

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HN mentions by year19 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2019-09-30 06:45:15 UTC to 2023-12-09 19:32:54 UTC.

024682019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 8 mentions; 0 submissions, 8 comments2023

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20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC808

What Hacker News says

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Well, there is the entire mathematical components library[0]. It's still fairly elementary, roughly at an advanced undergraduate level. Right now it actually takes far more time to write lean code than to prove things by hand. What is typically done in a single lecture in an intro Algebraic Number Theory course can take hours upon hours to implement. E.g. the Pell equation [1]. You have to be extremely explicit about everything, and can't handwave the details you do in human proofs. Right now the overhead of writing proofs in Lean is so large that you'd prove a theorem with pen and paper before attempting it in Lean. So far it is a useful tool for proof verification, but not for actually coming up with them. As things stand, computer proofs are only better than humans for things that are highly combinatorial in nature. which due to perfor
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mance concerns usually aren't written in languages running in VMs. [0]https://github.com/leanprover-community/mathlib [1]https://github.com/leanprover-community/mathlib/blob/master/...
In Theorem Proving in Lean [pdf]

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