A computer-assisted proof of a 150-year-old mathematical conjecture can at last be checked by human mathematicians. The Four Colour Theorem, proposed by Francis Guthrie in 1852, states that any four ...
It may contain inaccuracies due to the limitations of machine translation. Portrait of Pierre de Fermat, a 17th-century jurist and mathematician. Via Wikimedia Commons Mathematicians are embarking on ...
DOVER, N.H. — Kenneth Appel, a mathematician who was the first to use a computer to prove a major mathematical theorem, died April 19 in Dover, N.H. He was 80. Dr. Appel, a longtime educator who ...
BERLIN, Oct. 23 (UPI) -- Scientists from Germany and Austria say they have proved a 20th century theorem that mathematics can be used to prove the existence of a higher being. Christoph Benzmueller of ...
Calcea Johnson and Ne'Kiya Jackson, who surprised the math world when they produced innovative solutions to a 2,000-year-old puzzle, wowed the math world again when they presented several new ways of ...
If you thought the mathematical proofs you did in high school were long, you haven’t seen the newest one out of the University of Liverpool — computer scientists Alexei Lisitsa and Boris Konev came up ...
Bill Whitaker is an award-winning journalist and 60 Minutes correspondent who has covered major news stories, domestically and across the globe, for more than four decades with CBS News. A high school ...
The mathematics problem he solved had been lingering since 1637 — and he first read about it when he was just 10 years old. This week, British professor Andrew Wiles, 62, got prestigious recognition ...
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