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The mathematician and Fields medalist Vladimir Voevodsky on using automated proof assistants in mathematics:
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From a March 26, 2014 talk. Slides available here.
A video of the whole talk is available here.
And his textbook on the new univalent foundations of mathematics in homotopy type theory is here.
It is misleading to attribute that book solely to Voevodsky.
Computer scientists seem much more ready to adopt the language of homotopy type theory than homotopy theorists at the moment. It should be noted that there are many competing new languages for expressing the insights garnered by infinity groupoids. Though Voevodsky's language is the only one that has any connection to computers, the competing language of quasi-categories is more popular.
I know you're not supposed to quote yourself, but I came up with a cool saying about this a while back and I just want to share it.
Computer proof verification is like taking off and nuking the whole site from orbit: it's the only way to be sure.