When you’re hauling a couch through a narrow hallway and yelling “Pivot!” like Ross from Friends, you’re unwittingly ...

The proof that the Apéry constant is irrational remains one of the most bizarre events in the history of mathematics ...

These two teenage math stars have developed five new proofs of the Pythagorean theorem, one of mathematics’ most fundamental ...

The results of their work were published earlier in October in the journal The American Mathematical Monthly. Of course, plenty of proofs of this theorem exist, but very few use trigonometry to ...

Andrew Wiles devoted much of his entire career to proving Fermat's Last Theorem, the world's most famous mathematical problem. In 1993, he made front-page headlines when he announced a proof of ...

the course Mathematical Methods (MA100), or the course Quantitative Methods (Mathematics) (MA107). The course is an introduction to the use of formal definitions and proofs in mathematics, and to ...

Landmark results in geometry and number theory marked an exciting year for mathematics, at a time when advances in artificial ...

This radical, profoundly scholarly book explores the purposes and nature of proof in a range of historical settings. It overturns the view that the first mathematical proofs were in Greek geometry and ...

For centuries, they built these proofs line by careful line, and most math researchers still work like that today. But artificial intelligence is poised to fundamentally change this process.

The course is an introduction to the use of formal definitions and proofs in mathematics, and to basic results of elementary logic, set theory and analysis. Specific topics covered are as follows: ...