Take Fermat’s Last Theorem, for example: short and sweet enough to scribble in a margin, but a proof took more than 350 years and the development of multiple new fields of math to find.

The Langlands program has inspired and befuddled mathematicians for more than 50 years. A major advance has now opened up new ...

And for mathematics, the correspondence has led to the birth of proof assistants, also called interactive theorem provers. These are software tools that aid in constructing formal proofs, such as Coq ...

You only need the right answer. But math proofs are like being asked, "Explain why 2+2=4 using logical steps" or "Prove that this formula works for all possible numbers." ...

As you wrote in your paper, you can think of a proof as a social compact — a sort of mutual agreement between the author and their mathematical community. We’ve seen an extreme example of this not ...

The announcement follows Google's July 2024 claim that its AlphaProof and AlphaGeometry 2 models earned a silver medal ...

As described by Yale, first it required a "sample of individuals to match the four math proofs to the four landscape paintings based on how aesthetically similar they found them; the second ...

Here’s a simple example. Take a=16, b=21, and c=37. In this case, d = 2x3x7x37 = 1554, which is greater than c. The ABC conjecture says that this happens almost all the time. There is plenty of ...

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