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mathlib4

The math library of Lean 4

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20Mentions
1Explicit recommenders
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What it is

The math library of Lean 4

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

I may have been spending too much time with Lean recently, but the number one thing I’d like to see for the future of TLA+ is an equivalent of Mathlib…

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Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 2:59:53 AM UTC.

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HN mentions by year20 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2023-09-08 09:05:46 UTC to 2026-10-07 16:34:54 UTC.

024682023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 8 mentions; 0 submissions, 8 comments20232024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 0 submissions, 5 comments20242025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 1 submissions, 4 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

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20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC808
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC505
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC514
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202

What Hacker News says

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That assumes the natural language paper came first and then was formalized in lean. I haven't looked too deeply into how these labs solve these problems (or if they even specify this publicly) but you could also start with lean and then write the natural language proof based on it. For what it's worth the initial lean specifications for the top-level theorems generally come from human written formalizations such as in https://github.com/leanprover-community/mathlib4/blob/021ce6... so we can be reasonably confident about their correctness.
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