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#60 Exploring 'Mathlib' and the digitisation of mathematics: an interview with Professor Kevin Buzzard

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Living Proof: the Isaac Newton Institute podcast
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Sep 25, 2024
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Send us Fan Mail In the latest episode of Living Proof, Dan Aspel speaks to Professor Kevin Buzzard of Imperial College London. Inspired by a lecture given by Thomas Hales at INI’s Big Proof (https://www.newton.ac.uk/event/bpr/) programme in 2017, Kevin has spent the past seven years working alongside fellow enthusiasts on the “Maths Library” project. In this conversation he explains the project in detail, touching on why the programming language of Lean was chosen, and how it interacts with ...