Some “natural” logics preserve the “constructive” nature of the existential quantifier and thus guarantee the existence of ...

Since the start of the 20th century, the heart of mathematics has been the proof — a rigorous, logical argument for whether a given statement is true or false. Mathematicians’ careers are measured by ...

Fast forward to today, and Zahl and Wang are now co-authors of a yet-to-be-peer-reviewed proof heralded by Eyal Lubetzky, chair of the mathematics department at the Courant Institute where Wang is ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of their proofs was previously presented at a conference and their new solutions were published Monday in the journal American Mathematical Monthly. They started studying the math problem as ...

For over 2,000 years, such proofs were considered impossible ... for years and years before you can actually produce some new mathematics,” says mathematician Álvaro Lozano-Robledo of the ...

However, the new proofs aren’t circular ... an honorary professor at the University of Bristol’s School of Mathematics in the United Kingdom, described the study as “impressive.” ...