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ProofFlow: Flow Diagrams for Proofs

Digital Libraries 2012-02-06 v1

Abstract

We present a light formalism for proofs that encodes their inferential structure, along with a system that transforms these representations into flow-chart diagrams. Such diagrams should improve the comprehensibility of proofs. We discuss language syntax, diagram semantics, and our goal of building a repository of diagrammatic representations of proofs from canonical mathematical literature. The repository will be available online in the form of a wiki at proofflow.org, where the flow chart drawing software will be deployable through the wiki editor. We also consider the possibility of a semantic tagging of the assertions in a proof, to permit data mining.

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@article{arxiv.1202.0567,
  title  = {ProofFlow: Flow Diagrams for Proofs},
  author = {Steven A. Kieffer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1202.0567},
  year   = {2012}
}

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15 pages, 2 figures

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