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Jigger Wit
Personal blog · jiggerwit.wordpress.commathsciencesecurity
Jigger Wit is a personal blog at jiggerwit.wordpress.com about math, science and security. Since 2013, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “A Review of the Lean Theorem Prover”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Jigger Wit for writing on formalising mathematics and proof-assistant software, including the architecture of proof systems and rigorous documentation of mathematics. One commenter points to Hales' writings on the subject.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- A Review of the Lean Theorem Prover2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-09-18
What Hacker News says?
A few links found by following up: https://xenaproject.wordpress.com http://wwwf.imperial.ac.uk/~buzzard/one_off_lectures/msr.pdf http://aitp-conference.org/2019/slides/KB.pdf https://galois.com/blog/2018/07/the-lean-theorem-prover- past-present-and-future/ https://florisvandoorn.com https://florisvandoorn.com/talks/JMM2019formalabstracts.pdf https://sites.google.com/site/thalespitt/ https://jiggerwit.wordpress.com/…
Comment linking /2016/10/18/elliptic-curve-addition-without-tears/
on “The Future of Mathematics? [video]”Submitted A Review of the Lean Theorem Prover as a story · 67 points
HN discussionThere are quite a few competing systems at the moment, as with all things software, each one wants to be the standard :) https://jiggerwit.wordpress.com/2018/04/14/the-architecture-...
Comment linking /2018/04/14/the-architecture-of-proof-assistants/
on “Why doesn't mathematics collapse, though humans often make mistakes in proofs?”Submitted A Review of the Ferguson Imperial Model of Covid-19 Infection as a story · 18 points
HN discussionDocumenting mathematics rigorously is actually hard. For example see the Formal Abstracts ( https://formalabstracts.github.io ) project by Thomas Hales. Hales' other writings on the subject may be informative too: https://jiggerwit.wordpress.com/2019/06/20/an-argument-for-c...
Comment linking /2019/06/20/an-argument-for-controlled-natural-languages-in-mathematics/
on “Show HN: MathLingua – The Language of Mathematics”Submitted Formal Abstracts: Express Results of Math Publications in Computer-Readable Form as a story · 15 points
HN discussionMetamath is awesome if you're willing to slum it :) https://jiggerwit.wordpress.com/2018/04/14/the-architecture-...
Comment linking /2018/04/14/the-architecture-of-proof-assistants/
on “Number theorist fears many proofs widely considered to be true are wrong”Submitted The NSA back door to NIST as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Empirical World Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Formalizing NIST standards as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Review of the Lean Theorem Prover as a story · 2 points
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