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 ...

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 ...

What is the shortest route to the next stop or the agreed meeting point?  Global positioning systems (GPS) have become a routine part of everyday life for most people. Until now, however, the minimum ...

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 ...

Thanks to stochastics—an area of mathematics which deals with probabilities—this is even possible when randomness plays a ...

Emphasizing the creative nature of mathematics, this conversational textbook guides students through the process of discovering a proof. The material revolves around possible strategies to approaching ...

Both had studied geometry and some trigonometry, and both told us math was not easy. What no one told them was there had been more than 300 documented proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem using ...

The proof has to prove that no solutions exist ... Had she been born into high society, her study of mathematics might have been more acceptable. Although aristocratic women were not actively ...

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 ...

However, a full proof of the equivalence... Degenerate Diffusion Operators Arising in Population Biology Charles L. Epstein and Rafe Mazzeo This book provides the mathematical foundations for the ...

The pandemic’s origins, the lab leak theory, and the blame game have been in the headlines again. Despite another war 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 ...