Grothendieck's Approach to Equality [pdf]

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  • pasv

    The Pascal-F Verifier

  • which proves that the storing operation always produces a validly ordered array. That's essentially a code proof of correctness for a recursive function The Boyer-Moore prover was able to grind out a proof of that without help. That was a long proof, too.

    I submitted this to JACM. It was rejected, mostly for uglyness. The concept that you needed all this heavy machine-driven case analysis to prove a nice simple "axiom" upset mathematicians. Today it would be less of an issue. People are now more used to proofs that take a lot of grinding through cases.

    You could build up set theory this way, via ordered lists, if you wanted.

    So that's a classic of what happens if you take "equal" seriously.

    [1] http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/towards.pdf

    [2] https://theory.stanford.edu/~arbrad/papers/arrays.pdf

    [3] https://github.com/John-Nagle/pasv/blob/master/src/work/temp...

    [4] https://github.com/John-Nagle/nqthm

  • nqthm

    nqthm - the original Boyer-Moore theorem prover, from 1992

  • which proves that the storing operation always produces a validly ordered array. That's essentially a code proof of correctness for a recursive function The Boyer-Moore prover was able to grind out a proof of that without help. That was a long proof, too.

    I submitted this to JACM. It was rejected, mostly for uglyness. The concept that you needed all this heavy machine-driven case analysis to prove a nice simple "axiom" upset mathematicians. Today it would be less of an issue. People are now more used to proofs that take a lot of grinding through cases.

    You could build up set theory this way, via ordered lists, if you wanted.

    So that's a classic of what happens if you take "equal" seriously.

    [1] http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/towards.pdf

    [2] https://theory.stanford.edu/~arbrad/papers/arrays.pdf

    [3] https://github.com/John-Nagle/pasv/blob/master/src/work/temp...

    [4] https://github.com/John-Nagle/nqthm

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