The Automated Mathematician is one of the earliest successful
discovery systems. It was created by
Doug Lenat in
Lisp, and in
1977 led to Lenat being awarded the
IJCAI Computers and Thought Award.AM worked by generating and modifying short Lisp programs which were then interpreted as defining various mathematical concepts; for example, a program that tested equality between the length of two lists was considered to represent the concept of numerical equality, while a program that produced a list whose length was the product of the lengths of two other lists was interpreted as representing the concept of multiplication. The system had elaborate heuristics for choosing which programs to extend and modify, based on the experiences of working mathematicians in solving mathematical problems.
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