Simon Singh's exploration of mathematical proof – in particular Pierre de Fermat's last theorem – remains an absolute ...

A 150-year-old rule in geometry has been proven wrong. Mathematicians found two different doughnut-shaped surfaces that look ...

The celebrated actors are both making their Broadway debuts in a revival of David Auburn's Tony- and Pulitzer Prize-winner ...

For Sarthak Dassarma ’26, mathematics isn’t a set of rules to memorize—it’s a story, and the Putnam Competition is just his ...

GPT-5.4 Pro cracked a conjecture in number theory that had stumped generations of mathematicians, using a proof strategy that ...

Weighing up arguments, drawing logical conclusions and deriving a clearly correct answer—such tasks have so far presented ...

The incompleteness theorem is accepted as part of the mathematical canon today, but columnist Jacob Aron says it was a ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. In 1997, Deep Blue, a supercomputer built by IBM, did the unexpected: it defeated chess ...

In ancient Greece, Euclid showed that if you agree on a small list of preliminary principles, or axioms, you can use deductive reasoning to reveal all sorts of new mathematical truths. But although ...

The cast of ‘Proof’ at King’s College includes, clockwise from bottom left: Matt Bell as Hal; Finch Plaspohl as Claire; Gretta Rogan as Catherine and Noah McGinnis as Robert. The play opens March 26 ...

WINNSBORO, Texas (KLTV) - The Winnsboro Center for Fine Arts is presenting “Proof,” a drama about a woman fighting to be heard in a male-dominated field. “Proof” is a Pulitzer Prize and Tony ...

Technology founder and quantitative researcher Neel Somani has spent his career grappling with a deceptively simple question: How can researchers prove that complex systems behave the way they are ...