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 ...

Some mathematicians see theorem provers as a potentially game-changing tool for training undergraduates in proof writing. Others say that getting computers to write proofs is unnecessary for advancing ...

OpenAI researchers reveal how their experimental model, devoid of any external aids, powered through hours-long proofs to ...

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It trawled Lean’s database of mathematical results and returned some theorems that it thought could fill in the details of a particular section of the proof.

Teens come up with trigonometry proof for Pythagorean Theorem, a problem that stumped math world for centuries By Bill Whitaker ...

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

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