MIT Press recently published Fundamental Proof Methods in Computer Science, a book by Konstantine Arkoudas and David Musser, a professor emeritus of computer science at the Rensselaer Polytechnic ...

God is by definition a perfect being. It is more perfect to exist than to not exist. Therefore, God exists. Just given these simple ideas, a few axioms, and a fondness for pushing around abstract ...

The quest to make mathematics rigorous has a long and spotty history — one mathematicians can learn from as they push to ...

There’s widespread agreement that most useful quantum computing will have to wait for the development of error-corrected qubits. Error correction involves ...

Some scientific discoveries matter because they reveal something new — the double helical structure of DNA, for example, or the existence of black holes. However, some revelations are profound because ...

The use of computers means that modern mathematical proofs can run to millions of pages. Such proofs can never be fully verified by humans alone. Does this mean, as some argue, the death of proof? The ...