Theorem proving in large formal mathematics as an emerging AI field

  • Authors:
  • Josef Urban;Jiří Vyskočil

  • Affiliations:
  • Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands;Czech Technical University, Czech Republic

  • Venue:
  • Automated Reasoning and Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

In the recent years, we have linked a large corpus of formal mathematics with automated theorem proving (ATP) tools, and started to develop combined AI/ATP systems working in this setting. In this paper we first relate this project to the earlier large-scale automated developments done by Quaife with McCune's Otter system, and to the discussions of the QED project about formalizing a significant part of mathematics. Then we summarize our adventure so far, argue that the QED dreams were right in anticipating the creation of a very interesting semantic AI field, and discuss its further research directions.