What makes a proof stronger than a guess? What does evidence look like in the realm of mathematical abstraction? Hear the mathematician Melanie Matchett Wood explain how probability helps to guide ...

A University of Iowa researcher has been awarded $1.2 million from the National Science Foundation to develop a method to ...

Their proof, which appeared in May in the Annals of Mathematics, unites two rival axioms that have been posited as competing foundations for infinite mathematics. Asperó and Schindler showed that one ...

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

Lê parsed one of AlphaGeometry’s proofs and found it remarkable yet unsatisfying, Dr. Luong recalled: “He found it mechanical, and said it lacks the soul, the beauty of a solution that he ...

Verifying proofs to very hard math problems is possible with infinite quantum entanglement.