Computers can help ensure that mathematical proofs are correct, but translating traditional maths into a machine-readable ...

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Our attempts to establish scientific proof can harden into dogma. The target of “statistical significance” leads some to massage data.

Math ruined my GPA. But a new book rekindled my fascination with numbers. In ‘Once Upon a Prime,’ Sarah Hart takes readers on a fascinating tour of the world of numbers, finding connections ...

The Uncertain Science of Certainty sets out for readers “why it is crucial to find better ways to trust the things we cannot ...

The [Math Sorcerer] loves books. His latest acquisition is the famous Real and Complex Analysis, which is a very stout math book. How stout? Well, there are several chapters on holomorphic functio… ...

Mathematicians Wrote a Proof for a 100-Year-Old Problem—and May Have Just Changed Geometry The work has been deemed “spectacular progress” by giants of the field.

Math's Hidden Woman Following is the true story of Sophie Germain, an 18th-century woman who assumed a man's identity in order to pursue her passion—attempting to prove Fermat's Last Theorem ...

An error in a proof underlying a widely used branch of modern mathematics was accidentally discovered by mathematicians while translating old proofs to a computer language.

Students who made math history when they were in high school have now published new ways of proving the Pythagorean Theorem using trigonometry.

New study shows why simulated reasoning AI models don’t yet live up to their billing Top AI models excel at math problems but lack reasoning needed for Math Olympiad proofs.