Formalising Mathematics in Lean

This is the repository for the GlaMS course on Formalising Mathematics in Lean. The course content (workshop sheets and homeworks) is located in the folder Formal2024. There is also a References folder.

Getting the weekly updates

Type the following in your terminal

git pull && lake update -R && lake exe cache get

If you get an error with lake update -R, try rm -rf .lake then the above again.

How to work on this

Starting the repository

In Codespaces/Gitpod

The easy method: Use Lean in your very own web browser!
This can be done using Codespaces:

Or using Gitpod:

Locally

Install Lean on your computer following these instructions. Then you can clone this repository to your own computer by writing git clone https://github.com/glams-lean-2024/formal-2024.git in your terminal, followed by lake exe cache get.

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Working on the repository

All the files we will be using can be found in the folder Formal2024: this contains both the workshop and homework sheets.

In order to work on this efficiently, please make a copy of the folder and working on the copy rather than in the folder Formal2024. You can do this by writing cp -r Formal2024 MyFiles in your terminal. This copies the whole folder into a new folder called MyFiles which you will be working on (you can even create your own Lean files in that folder to experiment on!).

Each week, when the repository gets updated, you can type git pull in your terminal, then typing lake update -R to update all the dependencies, followed by lake exe cache get. This adds the new files into the folder Formal2024, which you can then copy manually into your own folder.

If you do work on the Formal2024 folder, and get a merge conflict when pulling the repository, then you should type git config pull --rebase false before git pull, you probably would need to also git add --all and git commit -m "some message" before git pull if you do get a merge conflict.

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Troubleshooting in Codespaces/Gitpod

• after waiting ~5 minutes for the codespaces to run, you will want to restart any opened file (by doing ctrl / command + shift + P, then you search for something along the lines of Lean4:restart file)
• if it still doesn't work, then you lake exe cache get in your terminal
• if it still doesn't work, then you lake update -R in your terminal
• if you're still not progressing, please message on Discord #general under the Lean category