Re: [Axiom-developer] Why proving Axiom correct is important

2015-05-08 Thread daly
Martin, >The book is based around Isabelle/HOL so if you don't want to use >Isabelle the book may not be of interest to you? I have only just >started reading the book so I don't have any great insights to give. Actually, Lamport's "How to write 21st Century Proofs" and "Specifying Systems" is

Re: [Axiom-developer] Why proving Axiom correct is important

2015-05-08 Thread Martin Baker
On 08/05/15 10:02, d...@axiom-developer.org wrote: Axiom Volume 13 is the start of the pile. If you find any papers or articles that might be of interest to the goal, please let me know. Tim, I am currently reading Nipkow/Klien [1] just to get a top level view of the subject (I have not looke

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2015-05-08 Thread daly
> Unfortunately, algorithms not only must be proved > mathematically correct, but also be implemented correctly. > > There is no fail-safe way to do mathematics other than > never leaving any "trivial" or "obvious" claims unchecked, > by multiple referees who would have to do the hard work. > N