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Can Computers Be Mathematicians?

The Joy of Why

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Lean and the Mathematics Library

Lean is a programming language as well as being a theorem prover. It powers everything, but lean itself knows barely any mathematics at all. Cauline just needs the absolute basic to be a programming language. So where does the mathematics go? Well, in 20 17, they decided that this new mathematics library was born. T was called mathlib, lean's mathematics library.

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