Filippo Di Capriglio is an Associate Professor of Mathematics and a formal proof verification specialist based in Saint-Étienne, combining academic research with hands-on library development in Lean. He leads editorial and open-science initiatives—as managing editor of the Annals of Formalized Mathematics and co-lead of the Publications College at France’s MESRE—and advises Open Access efforts through MathOA and Centre Mersenne. His academic path spans postdocs in Heidelberg and Osaka and a PhD from Sapienza, underpinning research on formalisation and proof assistants alongside continuing contributions to the influential mathlib3 codebase. Beyond theory, he brings practical publishing and LaTeX production experience from roles at Elsevier, Overleaf and EMS Press, uniquely bridging rigorous formalisation work with the real-world challenges of mathematical publishing.
6 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Mathematics at Sapienza Università di Roma
Pierre and Marie Curie University
Master's degree Mathematics, Master's degree Mathematics at Università degli Studi di Torino
Lean 3's obsolete mathematical components library: please use mathlib4
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:166 reviews, 411 commits, 47 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Filippo primarily contributed to the `mathlib3` library, focusing on refactoring and optimization of mathematical components. Their work included removing duplicate code, modifying and adding lemmas, and moving code related to fractional ideals. Furthermore, the user added lemmas related to products of prime ideals and added some lemmas regarding reindexing in the Kronecker product. These changes demonstrate a focus on improving the library's functionality and efficiency.
This is the repository for the Lean master program in Lyon for 2024-25
Contributions:1 review, 5 PRs, 185 pushes in 7 months
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Filippo Di Capriglio - Co-lead Of The Publications College