A glance at the November issue of Notices of the American Mathematical Society: What do mathematicians do? Mathematicians often have difficulty describing what they do in a way that is accessible to ...

Mathematicians explore ideas by proposing conjectures and proving them with theorems. For centuries, they built these proofs line by careful line, and most math researchers still work like that today.

What makes a proof stronger than a guess? What does evidence look like in the realm of mathematical abstraction? Hear the mathematician Melanie Matchett Wood explain how probability helps to guide ...

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 ...

REPORTER: THE LATE GLORIA FORD GILMER’S PASSION FOR MATH STARTED AT AN EARLY AGE. GROWING UP IN BALTIMORE, SHE SPENT MANY AFTERNOONS AND WEEKENDS WORKING AT HER DAD’S CORNER STORE. SHE SHARED THOSE ...

This episode traces the role of HBCUs and mentors in growing the community of Black mathematicians. The episode relates stories of prominent African American mathematicians who struggled through ...

Masaki Kashiwara received the honor, often regarded as the Nobel Prize in mathematics, for work that combined different mathematical fields to solve challenging problems. By Kenneth Chang Masaki ...

DeepMind is pushing artificial intelligence into one of the hardest arenas in science, building a system that can navigate the unforgiving logic of formal mathematical proofs. Instead of just ...