When I tell someone I am a mathematician, one of the most curious common reactions is: “I really liked math class because everything was either right or wrong. There is no ambiguity or doubt.” I ...

Today may go down as the biggest day in math in at least two decades, if not far longer. In a development that crystallizes an existential shift in humankind’s oldest intellectual discipline, ...

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 ...

Some mathematical statements feel undeniably true the moment you hear them. Yet proving them can be impossible. This theorem has convinced generations of mathematicians without ever yielding a formal ...

Marijn Heule turns mathematical statements into something like Sudoku puzzles, then has computers go to work on them. His proofs have been called “disgusting,” but they go beyond what any human can do ...

This article is from Proof Positive, our friendly math newsletter that's delivered to your inbox every Tuesday afternoon. Sign up today and read it first. Last week I explained how a then 25-year-old ...