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VUB's Data Analytics Lab has published new results showing that it is possible to develop original mathematical proofs using ...

The quest to make mathematics rigorous has a long and spotty history — one mathematicians can learn from as they push to ...

Yesterday I was doing some literature review for an article I’m writing about my inverted transition-to-proof class, and I got around to reading a paper by Guershon Harel and Larry Sowder¹ about ...

DeepMind is pushing artificial intelligence into one of the hardest arenas in science, building a system that can navigate the unforgiving logic of formal mathematical proofs. Instead of just ...

AI could soon spew out hundreds of mathematical proofs that look "right" but contain hidden flaws, or proofs so complex we can't verify them. How will we know if they're right? When you purchase ...

Computers are extremely good with numbers, but they haven’t gotten many human mathematicians fired. Until recently, they could barely hold their own in high school-level math competitions. But now ...

Mathematics is traditionally a solitary science. In 1986 Andrew Wiles withdrew to his study for seven years to prove Fermat’s theorem. The resulting proofs are often difficult for colleagues to ...