Did Bertrand Russell’s more rigorous ‘bottom up’ reconstruction of basic arithmetic lead to any significant novel results?

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  • lean4

    Lean 4 programming language and theorem prover

    I know that Lean draws heavily on type theory (which is apparently PM did too) to verify algorithms and various branches of math; I think that this is what Whitehead and Russell wanted to do, but they were stuck with pen and paper.

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