The culture of mathematics is all about proof. We sit around and think, and 95% of what we do is proof. A lot of the understanding we gain is from struggling with proofs and interpreting the issues ...

The author sketches the development of ever-more-rarefied mathematics, from calculus to the mind-bending work on different kinds of infinity by the Russian-German sage Georg Cantor, who proved ...

The crypto startup Axiom – a protocol allowing developers to write smart contracts on Ethereum that can retrieve data from the blockchain network and then perform intensive computations on it – has ...

Axiom uses zero-knowledge proofs, ... Once data is read and ingested, the coprocessor can perform “diverse operations” – addition, counting and other mathematical functions, ...

The work of mathematicians from centuries or even millennia ago speaks to their living peers in ways that practitioners of other disciplines must find baffling. Euclid’s proof that the list of ...

Never in modern times have mathematicians argued so publicly and so vehemently about a proof,” writes mathematics historian Gregory Moore in his 1982 book Zermelo’s Axiom of Choice. And things ...

Mathematics is traditionally a solitary science. In 1986 Andrew Wiles withdrew to his study for seven years to prove Fermat’s theorem. The resulting proofs are often difficult for colleagues to ...

Prof. Dr. Ralf Schindler and Prof. Dr. Dr. Katrin Tent, both investigators at our Cluster of Excellence Mathematics Münster, have independently been invited to present their research at the ...