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[Pierre Casteran <pierre.casteran AT labri.fr>]

Selon Pierre Letouzey 
<Pierre.Letouzey AT lri.fr>:

>
> Hi
>
> Seen today in Slashdot.org, the following article:
>
>  Science: The End of Mathematical Proofs by Humans?
>
> One of the reference is an article of The Economist:
>
>  http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3809661
>
> This contains a rather long description of the Four-Color theorem and
> the Flyspeck project. No further details on which proof systems are used,
> just that Georges Gonthier is currently part of Microsoft Research.
>

 Happily, there is a link to a paper by Keith Devlin of the MAA :
http://www.maa.org/devlin/devlin_01_05.html which gives more interesting
details.

Pierre



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