MathlibExplorer

Mathlib explorer is an interactive visualization tool designed for Lean's mathlib library. It visualizes the import relations within mathlib, with carefully thought-out layout and interactions. It is a great visual representation of how math concepts are connected to each other, which can be informative even if you cannot read Lean code.

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Features

The import graph is mapped onto the plane, s.t. if B imports A, B will always be on the right of A. This makes it easy to see how modern math theories are constructed from axioms and definitions.

Supported interactions:

• Scroll to zoom in/out
• Drag to move
• Click on a node to highlight
  • its direct neighbors
  • its transitive dependents
  • its transitive dependencies
• Click on a topic label to highlight
  • all nodes in the same topic
  • references to the topic
  • direct dependencies of the topic

Usage

Clone this repo:

git clone https://github.com/Crispher/MathlibExplorer

Go to the binary folder of your platform:

cd MathlibExplorer/release/bin_{YOUR_PLATFORM}

Run the executable:

./MathlibExplorer

Other Notes

Limited testing has been done so far, which is mainly on MacOS (M1).

The underlying mathlib data is a bit outdated. I might update it or publish the scripts to generate the data in the future.

Cross-platform graphics is powered by bgfx.