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Comment author: Drahflow 03 May 2015 08:43:04PM 2 points [-]

The Metamath project was started by a person who also wanted to understand math by coding it: http://metamath.org/

Generally speaking, machine-checked proofs are ridiculously detailed. But it being able to create such detailed proofs did boost my mathematical understanding a lot. I found it worthwhile.