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Re: [Coq-Club] Interest in Coq-based mathematics classes?


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  • From: "Pierce Benjamin C." <bcpierce AT cis.upenn.edu>
  • To: "Edward Z. Yang" <ezyang AT MIT.EDU>
  • Cc: Kristopher Micinski <krismicinski AT gmail.com>, Andrej Bauer <andrej.bauer AT andrej.com>, Coq Club <coq-club AT inria.fr>, Adam Chlipala <adamc AT csail.mit.edu>
  • Subject: Re: [Coq-Club] Interest in Coq-based mathematics classes?
  • Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 18:36:33 -0400

>> You are aware that the university of Pennsylvania teaches a course using
>> the software foundations textbook which slightly satisfies this idea? It's
>> the closest thing I can think of off the top of my head. I believe Pierce
>> has a talk on it, lambda the ultimate ta.
>
> Software Foundations is a great textbook, but it focuses on aspects of
> mathematics and programming languages theory which traditionally theorem
> provers like Coq have been quite strong at. I believe Adam is interested
> in targeted mathematics that goes beyond the simple structural induction
> we know and love.

Yes, PL foundations is the easy case for teaching using Coq.

I think one next (big) step should be undergrad discrete math -- help is
badly needed there!

- Benjamin






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