Questions tagged [mathematics]
Use this tag for questions a mathematician would feel at home answering and can be traced back to an area of mathematics.
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Can we automatically get around set-theoretic difficulties?
One of the main technical annoyances of working with (large) categories is the variety of set-theoretic difficulties that come about with it: if we use ZFC as background logic, then those large ...
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Correcting formally verified results
John Harrison spoke once about checking the results of some peer reviewed mathematical research: he has found bugs in the proofs and even a faulty theorem, which he corrected by giving a formal proof.
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