How to (really) trust a mathematical proof Mathematicians develop computer proof-checking systems in order to realize century-old dreams of fully precise, accurate mathematics.

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.

Computer-assisted of mathematical proofs are not new. For example, computers were used to confirm the so-called 'four color theorem.' In a short release, 'Proof by computer,' the American ...

A new math proof could help us map the inside of the Earth in unprecedented detail. Gunther Uhlmann of the University of Washington, one of Vasy’s coauthors, has been working on the problem for ...

Landmark Math Proof Clears Hurdle in Top Erdős Conjecture Two mathematicians have proved the first leg of Paul Erdős’ all-time favorite problem about number patterns.

Proofs have core assumptions on which everything else hinges—and many of the philosophically fraught questions about mathematical truth and reality are actually about this starting point.

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 ...

A new computer program fashioned after artificial intelligence systems like AlphaGo has solved several open problems in combinatorics and graph theory.

What happens when things combine? This question lies at the heart of the Borell-Brascamp-Lieb inequality (BBL), a mathematical relation widely applied across many fields of mathematics, science ...