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- From: rivin@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (Igor Rivin)
- Subject: Re: Which CAS have BA's in math?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.033003.19619@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>
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- Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
- References: <1jhjkfINN8m9@function.mps.ohio-state.edu> <1993Jan19.205434.10234@leland.Stanford.EDU> <scott.727648403@trimtab>
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 03:30:03 GMT
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- In article <scott.727648403@trimtab> bobk@decide.com writes:
- >[Posted for friend.]
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- >ilan@leland.Stanford.EDU (ilan vardi) writes:
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- >>In article <1jhjkfINN8m9@function.mps.ohio-state.edu> edgar@math.ohio-state.edu (Gerald Edgar) writes:
- >>>
- >>>I doubt there is a computer algebra system that can get a degree
- >>>in mathematics: they don't write proofs (yet). However, I tried the
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- >>They write papers though. Shalosh B. Ekhad, Doron's Zeilberger's computer,
- >>has written a number of papers (more than I have, I think).
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- >Actually, one system written in Mathematica can do proofs (printed in
- >TeX of course). This system created by a couple of professors from
- >Carnegie-Mellon can do the proof of the Wierstass continuous-nowhere
- >differentiable function. All of the theorems from Chapter 2 of
- >Ramanujan's collected works, properties of stereographic projections
- >and on and on. The professors are Ed Clark and Xudong Zhao and they
- >have an article in the current issue of the Mathematical Journal. I
- >recommend it highly. A BA in analysis is not as far away as some might
- >think.
- >
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- (a) Minor point: Zhao is not a professor, being a graduate student of
- Professor Clark.
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- (b) Major point: Their work is very interesting, but if you did your
- exams with as much help as their system (or any theorem proving
- system, for that matter) gets, you would get kicked out of school
- pronto for plagiarism. On the other hand, maybe their system could
- become a US senator (viz. Ted Kennedy). Theorem proving systems now
- and for the forseeable future would be better described as proof
- verifying systems.
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