[FOM] Errors discovered as a result of formalization
Timothy Y. Chow
tchow at math.princeton.edu
Tue Jan 14 13:56:45 EST 2020
A few years ago here on FOM, the question was raised as to whether there
were convincing examples of significant errors in proofs being discovered
during the process of formalization. Here's one FOM post (by me) in that
thread:
https://cs.nyu.edu/pipermail/fom/2014-October/018210.html
At the time, it seemed that there were no examples. The question was
raised on MathOverflow some time later.
https://mathoverflow.net/questions/291158/proofs-shown-to-be-wrong-after-formalization-with-proof-assistant
The top two answers to the question are, in my opinion, pretty convincing
recent examples.
Tim
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