[FRIAM] TheoremDep

[glen∈ℂ]

Unfortunately, I have no sense of humor.  (Seriously.  I've been told so by many witty persons.)  So, the question remains.  Do you think that theorem dependency project is about concatenating proofs?

On 3/27/19 2:02 PM, Frank Wimberly wrote:
> Concatenate proofs.  This reminds me of the old joke:
> 
> An Engineer walks in her office and finds her trash can on fire.  She
> gets the fire extinguisher and puts out the fire.
> 
>    The Mathematician walks in his office and finds his trash can on fire.
> He gets the fire extinguisher and puts out the fire.
> 
>    The following day :
> 
>    The Engineer walks in her office and finds the trash can on fire on
> top of her desk.  She gets the fire extinguisher and put out the fire.
> 
>    The Mathematician walks in his office and finds the trash can on fire
> on top of his desk.  He takes the trash can and puts it on the floor.
> He has reduced the problem to a previously solved state.  Too solve it
> again would be redundant.
>
>>> On 3/22/19 3:54 PM, Frank Wimberly wrote:
>>>> I can see that the proof of a theorem can be constructed by
>> concatenating proofs of theorems that it depends on but I wonder if that
>> would produce the most succinct and comprehensible proof.