In a new book, the mathematical epidemiologist Adam Kucharski explains how certainty, even in math, can be an illusion.

Man Teaches Math to Struggling Stranger on ... "In fact, in the book containing the largest known collection of proofs (The Pythagorean Proposition by Elisha Loomis) the author flatly states ...

The proof has to prove that no solutions exist ... father's library and chanced upon Jean-Étienne Montucla's book History of Mathematics. The chapter that caught her imagination was Montucla's ...

AW: In a mathematical proof you have a line of reasoning consisting ... Sometimes that would involve going and looking it up in a book to see how it's done there. Sometimes it was a question ...