* NYC LOCAL: Tuesday 12 July 2005 Lisp NYC: Raymond Puzio on Lisp, Mathematics, and the Library of Leibniz and Borges and Google
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From: Heow Eide-Goodman <lists@alphageeksinc.com>
To: "lisp@lispnyc.org" <lisp@lispnyc.org>
Please join us for our next meeting on Tuesday, July 12th from 7:00
to 9:00 at Trinity Lutheran Church.
In last month's talk, we heard how Lisp is based upon certain ideas
from the foundations of the Lambda Calculus branch of mathematics. In
this month's talk, Raymond Puzio will consider how Lisp can repay this
debt to mathematics:
Lisp is the language of mathematics - but many people don't
realize that!
The Hyperreal Dictionary of Mathematics seeks to fulfill
Lisp's mathematical promise, and greatly expand the
usability and accessibility of mathematics for everyone.
The core of this project is a comprehensive dictionary of
mathematical knowledge in a formal language inspired by Lisp
which will represent mathematical concepts formally at a
higher level than symbolic logic and is comprehensible to
both humans and machines. To make sure that this language
will indeed be capable of express any precise mathematical
idea that can be expressed in mathematical notation, we have
examined examples of mathematical proofs and definitions and
studied the theoretical underpinnings of mathematical
notation.
Since few mathematicians are willing to adapt a new system
of notation, no matter how well thought out, we are also
writing programs to translate between our formalism and
conventional mathematical notation. In the future, we also
hope to include natural language processing so that the
program will be able to understand the mathematical
litearture and produce output in a user friendly form.
Simply translating a body of mathematics into a new
formalism is relatively uninteresting by itself; one also
need to do something with it. To that end, we are working
on programs which will perform such tasks as translate
between different notations and verify mathematical proofs
for correctness. In particular, we are working on an
approach to proof checking which treats logical and
non-logical operations on an equal footing and views proofs
as analogous to programs. We believe that this approach is
well suited to implementation in Lisp and captures the way
mathematicians concieve of proofs better than an approach
based upon reducing everything to formal logic.
This talk will be of interest to mathematicians, metamathematicians, and
lispers, and especially interesting to those who find themselves in the
intersection of these two sets. Only a basic acquaintence with Lisp and
the foundations of mathematics is necessary in order to understand this
talk.
Raymond Puzio first encountered Lisp one Saturday on 116th street as a
high-school student in a weekend enrichment program offered at Columbia
University; it was love at first byte and his enthusiasm for Lisp has
not waned since, but the relation has deepened with his appreciation of
the subtle beauties of logic and metamathematics. This program led him
to enroll as an undergraduate in Columbia where he majored in physics
with a concentration in mathematics. He then went on to Yale for
graduate studies in physics, leading to a doctorate in the subject of
general relativity and quantum gravity and was a post-doctoral scholar
in the Centre for Gravitational Physics and Geometry at Pennsylvania
State University.
After some time in exotic places like Mississippi and Memphis, he is now
back in the New York metro area. He has taken an interest in projects
such as Planet Math, Asteroid Meta, and the Hyperreal Dictionary of
Mathematics which aim to make mathematical knowledge generally
accessible in digital form and build software tools which will help
mathematicians. He has authored more than 200 entries for the Planet
Math encyclopaedia and is also involved in other aspects of the
project.
Raymond is collaborating with Joe Corneli on the ambitous Hyperreal
Dictionary of Mathematics project and contributes regularly to Asteroid
Meta, which serves as a focal point for coordinating work on these
projects as well as exploring their theoretical foundations and
cultural implications.
Resources:
http://planetmath.org/
http://planetx.cc.vt.edu/AsteroidMeta/The_Hyperreal_Dictionary_of_Mathematics
Directions to Trinity:
Trinity Lutheran
602 E. 9th St. & Ave B., on Thomkins Square Park
http://trinitylowereastside.org/
From N,R,Q,W (8th Street NYU Stop) and the 4,5 (Astor Street Stop):
Walk East 4 blocks on St. Marks, cross Thomkins Square Park.
From F&V (2nd Ave Stop):
Walk E one or two blocks, turn north for 8 short blocks
From L (1st Ave Stop):
Walk E one block, turn sounth for 5 short blocks
The M9 bus line drops you off at the doorstep and the M15 is near get
off on St. Marks & 1st)
To get there by car, take the FDR (East River Drive) to Houston then
go NW till you're at 9th & B. Week-night parking isn't bad at all,
but if you're paranoid about your Caddy or in a hurry, there is a
parking garage on 9th between 1st and 3rd Ave.
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Jay Sulzberger <secretary@lxny.org>
Corresponding Secretary LXNY
LXNY is New York's Free Computing Organization.
http://www.lxny.org
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