I analyse differences in style between traditional prose mathematics writing and computer-formalised mathematics writing, presenting five case studies. I note two aspects where good style seems to differ between the two: in their incorporation of computation and of abstraction. I argue that this reflects a different mathematical aesthetic for formalised mathematics.| arXiv.org
This post was inspired by some recent discussions with Bjoern Bringmann. Symbolic math software packages are highly developed for many mathematical tasks in areas such as algebra, calculus, and num…| What's new