A Once-in-a-Century Proof: The Kakeya Conjecture

A simple question about a spinning needle has haunted mathematicians for more than a century. It led to the Kakeya conjecture ...
Wired

A Retiree Discovers an Elusive Math Proof—And Nobody Notices

As he was brushing his teeth on the morning of July 17, 2014, Thomas Royen, a little-known retired German statistician, suddenly lit upon the proof of a famous conjecture at the intersection of ...
The Brown Daily Herald

Professor awarded for geometric proof

Professor of Mathematics Jeremy Kahn won the 2012 Clay Research Award — one of the most prestigious awards in mathematics — for his work on hyperbolic geometry. Kahn and his collaborator Vladimir ...
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Two American Teenage Girls May Have Cracked a 2,000-Year-Old Math Puzzle With a Stunning New Pythagoras Proof

For over two millennia, mathematicians agreed on one thing: you can’t use trigonometry to prove Pythagoras’ Theorem—because ...
Ars Technica

DeepMind AI rivals the world’s smartest high schoolers at geometry

A system developed by Google’s DeepMind has set a new record for AI performance on geometry problems. DeepMind’s AlphaGeometry managed to solve 25 of the 30 geometry problems drawn from the ...
UMass Lowell

Catalog : MATH.3230 Introduction to Proofs

This course will focus on reading and writing mathematics. Students will learn how to analyze and interpret mathematical statements and understand the reasoning behind these statements. They will also ...
VentureBeat

Google DeepMind’s AI system solves geometry problems like a math Olympian

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