The Mizar Mathematical Library in OMDoc: Translation and Applications

  • Authors:
  • Mihnea Iancu;Michael Kohlhase;Florian Rabe;Josef Urban

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer Science, Jacobs University Bremen, Bremen, Germany;Computer Science, Jacobs University Bremen, Bremen, Germany;Computer Science, Jacobs University Bremen, Bremen, Germany;Computing and Information Sciences, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Automated Reasoning
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

The Mizar Mathematical Library is one of the largest libraries of formalized and mechanically verified mathematics. Its language is highly optimized for authoring by humans. As in natural languages, the meaning of an expression is influenced by its (mathematical) context in a way that is natural to humans, but harder to specify for machine manipulation. Thus its custom file format can make the access to the library difficult. Indeed, the Mizar system itself is currently the only system that can fully operate on the Mizar library. This paper presents a translation of the Mizar library into the OMDoc format (Open Mathematical Documents), an XML-based representation format for mathematical knowledge. OMDoc is geared towards machine support and interoperability by making formula structure and context dependencies explicit. Thus, the Mizar library becomes accessible for a wide range of OMDoc-based tools for formal mathematics and knowledge management. We exemplify interoperability by indexing the translated library in the MathWebSearch engine, which provides an "applicable theorem search" service (almost) out of the box.