Shinichi Mochizuki’s controversial mathematical proof of abc conjecture divides math experts amid cultural conflicts and ...

Fast forward to today, and Zahl and Wang are now co-authors of a yet-to-be-peer-reviewed proof heralded by Eyal Lubetzky, chair of the mathematics department at the Courant Institute where Wang is ...

The incident raises a fundamental question: What is a mathematical proof? We tend to think of it as a revelation of some eternal truth, but perhaps it is better understood as something of a social ...

Since the start of the 20th century, the heart of mathematics has been the proof — a rigorous, logical argument for whether a given statement is true or false. Mathematicians’ careers are measured by ...

Professors Amir Ali Ahmadi and Pravesh Kothari are pioneering the use of artificial intelligence to enhance complex ...

Along with his colleagues, mathematicians Jay Pantone and Vince Vatter, Houston decided to check the 4chan user’s proof and write it down in a mathematical way. The researchers posted their ...

We need something more robust and sophisticated than testing. We need mathematical proof. Testing is akin to checking each link in a chain to make sure they’re strong. This may work well for a ...

Black holes exist in our universe. That’s widely accepted today. Physicists have detected the X-rays emitted when black holes feed, analyzed the gravitational waves from black hole collisions ...

Mireille Boutin, a professor of discrete algebra and geometry at TU/e and Gregor Kemper, a professor of algorithmic algebra at TUM, have now produced a mathematical proof showing that with five or ...