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Questions that are about research in mathematics, or about the job of a research mathematician, without being mathematical problems or statements in the strictest sense. Do not use this tag for easy or supposedly easy mathematical questions.
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How to present mathematics to non-mathematicians?
I have given talks about mathematics to non-mathematicians, for example to a bunch of marketing people. To see an example of a talk of mine that was given to a general audience, see my talk Zeros, giv …
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How exactly are realizability and the Curry-Howard correspondence related?
I am sure more than one exact correspondence can be made, but here's at least one that is technically precise. We shall employ categorical logic.
Executive summary: realizability is the interpretatio …
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What are some ways to stay engaged with the mathematical community from outside academia?
If you like computers, you could consider getting into formalized mathematics, which is mathematics done completely formally and verified by computer programs, known as proof assistants. Formalized ma …
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What are your favorite instructional counterexamples?
Counterexamples are very important when a student learns how to think in intuitionistic logic (and he has already been "spoiled" by classical logic). The counterexamples destroy the classical intuitio …
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What makes dependent type theory more suitable than set theory for proof assistants?
I apologize for writing a lengthy answer, but I get the feeling the discussions about foundations for formalized mathematics are often hindered by lack of information.
I have used proof assistants for …
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New research on coding in reverse mathematics?
I can offer a computational perspective. In computable mathematics we are interested in "computing with mathematical objects" such as integers, finite sets, real numbers, infinite-dimensional Banach s …
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Old books you would like to have reprinted with high-quality typesetting
Just for fun, Principia mathematica.
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On proof-verification using Coq
Coq is a proof assistant, and not the only one. Other popular ones are Agda, Isabelle and the related HOL light. They all use type theory as a mathematical foundation (as opposed to first-order logic …
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Progress towards a computational interpretation of the univalence axiom?
Cubical type theory is a variant of type theory which has all the usual (and some unusal) computational properties, and the Univalence Axiom is a theorem of cubical type theory. As was already pointed …
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Formal Definition of Finite Conditions
It might be the case that the definition of finite elements from domain theory is what you are looking for. It makes precise the idea that an element of a poset carries finite amount of information.
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What is some current research going on in foundations about?
It is quite difficult to answer this question comprehensively. It's a bit like asking "so what's been going on in analysis lately?" It is probably best if logicians who work in various areas each answ …
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Does the "propositions-as-types" paradigm match mathematical practice?
There are many aspects to the question "does a logical formalism reflect mathematical practice?" I will focus just on a very simple but important detail that every mathematician is familiar with.
In …
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What are some important but still unsolved problems in mathematical logic?
The modern logic (and foundational mathematics in general) of the 20th century gave us many important things: Russell's type theory, Zermelo-Fraenkel's set theory, meta-theorems about first order logi …
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type theory that does not treat the terms of $\mathrm{Prop}$ as types
Before I actually answer the question asked, let me try to explain one way of thinking about proofs as elements of propositions. It is not the only way, but it should appeal to a mathematician with a …
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classical typed higher order logic natural deduction
Russell & Whiteheads theory is perhaps a bit on the heavy side, but here are some references to support Andreas Blass' comment:
An early formulations of classical higher-order logic was given by Alo …
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