As a current description, by default people work on their own
often-overlapping
topics, with the help of the community answering any questions.
I'm unsure so
I'll leave the question of contributors open.
The project proposed here seems highly interesting. I think the
main part
of the work is simply defining all the functions, since many
concepts haven't
been defined yet.
One potential difficulty is that Metamath currently does not
have much tooling.
So computer-generated proofs are ironically tedious and manual
to prove by
default (not sure if https://us.metamath.org/mpeuni/631prm.html
was done
manually; https://us.metamath.org/mpeuni/ax-bgbltosilva.html is
also illustrative).
Computer-generated proofs are rare in math, luckily. But if the
plan is to prove a
very large amount of sequences then I imagine it would be more
efficient to make
the tooling for it first. Or (dun dun dun?) ask the Lean
community. Teamwork
makes the dream work, in this case the sequences are
math-community-wide so
I'd imagine the larger amount of people doing Lean proofs would
make it easier.
I don't see any other strategy than starting with some sequence,
and start seeing
what needs to be done (a lot). As a start, here's A1, informally
the
(number of groups of order N), the definition is
(number of groups of order N, mod equivalence)
a1 = ( n e. NN |-> ( # ` ( { g e. Grp | ( od ` g ) = n } /. ~=g
) ) )
On Thursday, November 21, 2024 at 10:54:30 AM UTC-6 Peter
Dolland wrote:
Hello Metamath Community,
I'm still new here. So let me explain my intention, what I
want here. My
original motivation comes from combinatorics. I am
interested in the
relationship between the specification of an algebraic
structure (such
as directed or undirected graph, magma resp. groupoid,
semigroup, group,
topological space, partition, etc.) and the sequence that
indicates how
many non-isomorphic instances of the structure there are
over a set with
n elements, where n=0,1,2,3,.... . These sequences are
published on
oeis.org <http://oeis.org>: A273, A88, A1329, A27851, A1,
A1930, A41,... . For some of
them, a generating algorithm (in some programming language)
is also
given. However, in none of these sequences is a formal
specification of
the underlying algebraic structure given, although this is
often much
simpler than the generating algorithm.
My impression so far is that the desired specifications can
be created
with MetaMath without any effort, as long as they are not
already
contained in set.mm <http://set.mm>. A real challenge would
probably be to verify the
specified algorithms against the specifications. It seems to
me that a
basis of theorems would have to be created first. In
particular, Polya's
counting theorem would need to be formalised. But perhaps
one of you
knows what already exists on this topic and can be used.
Irrespective of this, it also seems worthwhile to me to
create a bridge
between MetaMath and OEIS in such a way that MetaMath
specifications are
added to corresponding sequences. The aim here could be to
improve the
findability of sequences. For example, the additional
criterion that the
elements of the carrier set are to be regarded as different
(labelled)
could be achieved by adding an independent complete order
relation. For
example, compare the sequences A88 with A53763, A273 with
A2416, A41
with A110 or A1930 with A798. So you can see the first
sequence is for
each pair the unlabelled version. And the second ones yield
the labelled
version.
I see a need for action that goes far beyond my areas of
different
expertises. The question now arises as to whether there are
people in
your community who are willing and able to support me in my
search of a
bridge as mentioned above. I have to admit that I have not
yet delved
very deeply into MetaMath and set.mm <http://set.mm>. If I
find someone here, I really
will have chance in order to acquire the necessary knowledge
and skills.
I am hopefully very convinced that MetaMath makes a decisive
contribution to the further development of mathematics and
computer
science by formalising important statements.
With best wishes,
Peter Dolland
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