The painstaking process of formalization to verify proofs is starting to surge thanks to AI. That could radically change the ...

After an eight-year struggle, embattled Japanese mathematician Shinichi Mochizuki has finally received some validation. His 600-page proof of the abc conjecture, one of the biggest open problems in ...

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

Those changes will be contested, in math as in other academic disciplines wrestling with AI’s impact. As AI models become a ...