New York Times bestselling author, Baker University alumnus talks Netflix adaptation

Candice Millard's "Destiny of the Republic" is about the life, assassination and legacy of the United States of America's ...
Scientific American

This mathematician proved a brilliant theorem to justify his social awkwardness

George Pólya’s random walk theorem absolved him of being a lurker and revealed how the laws of chance interact with physical ...
GitHub

Prover Agent: An Agent-Based Framework for Formal Mathematical Proofs

We present Prover Agent, a novel AI agent for automated theorem proving that integrates large language models (LLMs) with a formal proof assistant, Lean. Prover Agent coordinates an informal reasoning ...
Smithsonian Magazine

One Was a Teenage Diplomat. Another Was a Nuclear Engineer. Here’s How Eight Presidents Made Their Mark Outside of the White House

In 1876, when James A. Garfield was serving his seventh term in Congress, he devised an original proof for the Pythagorean theorem. A classics scholar who’d taught math, history, philosophy, Greek, ...
The New York Times

These Mathematicians Are Putting A.I. to the Test

Large language models struggle to solve research-level math questions. It takes a human to assess just how poorly they perform. By Siobhan Roberts A few weeks ago, a high school student emailed Martin ...
Quanta Magazine

Long-Sought Proof Tames Some of Math’s Unruliest Equations

Mathematicians finally understand the behavior of an important class of differential equations that describe everything from water pressure to oxygen levels in human tissues. The trajectory of a storm ...
IEEE

Formal Proof of the Mean Value Theorem Based on Coq

Abstract: This paper introduces the formal proof of the three mean value theorems of differentiation in detail. The differential mean value theorem is the core theorem of differential calculus, an ...