Comment by xamuel
13 years ago
Computers are ubiquitous in math research. We use LaTeX to type the research up and we email it to each other. (Ba dum ching!)
I actually had a peer reviewer ask me to formalize a paper of mine in Coq, and I did so. It's a wonderful experience and it opened my eyes (thanks, reviewer) but it was only feasible in this paper's case because this paper dealt with extremely formal logical syntax. Even so, for every page of human-readable paper, the formalization had two pages of incredibly hard-to-read (and even harder to write) code. For anything more semantical, it's completely unreasonable in the short-term future.
I'm not sure that it's appropriate to ask, but I would love to see the paper.
Here is the paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/1105.4135 And here is the formalization of sections 2-3 in Coq: http://www.math.osu.edu/~alexander.421/mech.txt
Thanks.