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Re: [tlaplus] TLA+ for testing computational algorithms rather than verify mathematical proofs

The introductory material for the TLA+ proof system is admittedly not great at the moment. There is a basic tutorial available on the INRIA website: https://tla.msr-inria.inria.fr/tlaps/content/Documentation/Tutorial/The_example.html

Really though the best way to learn is to just try to prove a very simple statement and see how it goes, reading other peoples' proofs for inspiration. Here are my attempts at some basic proofs: https://github.com/tlaplus/Examples/tree/master/specifications/LearnProofs

You can also look at the tlaplus/examples repo in general, there is a table in the README with checkboxes marking every spec that includes proofs: https://github.com/tlaplus/Examples

The TLA+ proof language is usually applied to prove statements that are shallow but broad, as in very simple mathematical statements but a lot of them. This is what you have to do to prove an algorithm correct. Each individual step in the algorithm is usually mathematically simple, but there are a lot of them. I am not aware of the TLA+ proof language being used to prove "deep" mathematical theorems like you hear coming out of the Rocq and Lean community, but perhaps examples exist.

Andrew Helwer

On Sunday, April 28, 2024 at 3:42:08 AM UTC-4 marta zhango wrote:
Felicitations Martin.  The problem I struggle with is that the TLA+ book does not cover
the verification of mathematical proofs.  purely mathematical.  Have scrutinised Stephan's
links to actual proofs of Cantor's theorem. But can one use the software to show that they
are indeed correct.  This is the field of verification that I have interest in at this moment.

Can one find a tutorial about how specific mathematical proofs can be defined and verified ?

Thank you so very much
Marta


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