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Google’s AlphaProof Can Work on Mathematical Proofs Once Thought Beyond Machines

In 2024, an AI entered the fray of the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO). Google’s AlphaProof is part of the same ...
Popular Mechanics

Machines Are on the Verge of Tackling Fermat’s Last Theorem—a Proof That Once Defied Them

A mathematician will turn a groundbreaking 100-page proof into computer code. The proof tool, Lean, lets users turn proofs written in prose into rules and logic for testing. Kevin Buzzard already uses ...
Quanta Magazine

To Have Machines Make Math Proofs, Turn Them Into a Puzzle

Marijn Heule turns mathematical statements into something like Sudoku puzzles, then has computers go to work on them. His ...
Decrypt

Google DeepMind's AlphaEvolve AI Finds New Paths to Unsolved Math Problems

DeepMind’s AlphaEvolve helps solve a math puzzle with Terence Tao, showing how AI can now invent new ideas—and prove old ones ...
Nature

Modal Logic and Proof Theory

Modal logic, an extension of classical logic, investigates the modes of truth such as necessity and possibility. Its development has been closely intertwined with advances in proof theory, a field ...
Bloomberg L.P.

The fundamental role of logic and proof in computer science

MIT Press recently published Fundamental Proof Methods in Computer Science, a book by Konstantine Arkoudas and David Musser, a professor emeritus of computer science at the Rensselaer Polytechnic ...