Marijn Heule turns mathematical statements into something like Sudoku puzzles, then has computers go to work on them. His ...

Mathematicians have broken through a long-standing barrier in the study of “minimizing surfaces,” which play an important ...

J. R. Brown, Philosophy of mathematics: an introduction to the world of proofs and pictures, Routledge (1999). 2. R. B. Nelsen, Proofs without words I: exercises in ...

Google's AlphaProof is capable of solving complex mathematics but it's greatest feature may actually be finding errors.

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." A 125-page proof posted to arXiv may represent a huge breakthrough in geometric measure theory. This ...

Having high school students prove geometrical propositions became the norm in the United States with the reforms of the 1890's - when geometry was designated as the place for students to learn the ...

The International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) is probably the most prestigious competition for preuniversity students. Every year students from around the world compete for its coveted bronze, silver ...

A mathematician once lamented that — despite popular belief — his job did not entail simply multiplying bigger and bigger numbers together. One may be quite forgiven for believing this, however. The ...

As he was brushing his teeth on the morning of July 17, 2014, Thomas Royen, a little-known retired German statistician, suddenly lit upon the proof of a famous conjecture at the intersection of ...