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We clarify the formulation problem of mechanical theorem proving in differential geometry and mechanics and propose two formulations. We present complete methods of mechanical theorem proving for the two formulations. We also introduce predicates and a language to translate geometry statements into differential polynomial equations. A program based on our methods has proved more than 100 nontrivial theorems in differential geometry and elementary mechanics including various classification theorems for space curves, Bertrand's Theorem, Newton's gravitational laws, etc.
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The work reported here was supported in part by NSF Grants CCR-8702108 and CCR-9117870.
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Chou, SC., Gao, XS. Automated reasoning in differential geometry and mechanics using the characteristic set method. J Autom Reasoning 10, 173–189 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00881835
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00881835