Discrete mathematics gets easier when you know how to approach proofs. Direct reasoning, induction, and contradiction each have specific steps that can be learned and practiced. Pairing these methods ...

The painstaking process of formalization to verify proofs is starting to surge thanks to AI. That could radically change the way people do math.

Number theorist Andrew Granville on what mathematics really is — and why objectivity is never quite within reach. In 2012, the mathematician Shinichi Mochizuki claimed he had solved the abc conjecture ...