> | Julien Narboux, who used Coq to prove Tarksi theorems, said something
> | like that, and I just don't understand.  It took me 300 lines to
> | (porting Julien) prove Gupta's amazing theorem that 2 points determine
> | a line.  I found it exhilarating, not painful.  My problem is math: I
> | don't know how to prove the rest of Hilbert's axioms.  I don't know
> | how to prove the full Pasch axiom (Tarski's axiom is 1/3 of that).
>
> This reminds me of something Andrzej Trybulec said about automated
> theorem provers: why should we let the machine deprive us of the
> pleasure of proving things?

I just tried this, and it turns out that Vampire (fitting name) would
fully deprive us of this pleasure in all but five theorems in Bill's
article :-).

This could make a cheap way how to get a fast gratification when
translating to HOL Light: first only translate the theorems (not the
proofs), and call the HOL Light's Prover9 or MESON tactic with the
list of theorems used in the Mizar proof. If you tell me (best by
examples) how to map the Mizar symbols and terms to concrete HOL Light
syntax, I can probably automate that.

Josef

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