This article is from Proof Positive, our friendly math newsletter that's delivered to your inbox every Tuesday afternoon. Sign up today and read it first. Last week I explained how a then 25-year-old ...
By encoding mathematical statements into numbers, mathematician Kurt Gödel used ordinary arithmetic to check whether a ...
A mathematical statement everyone believes but no one can prove Some mathematical statements feel undeniably true the moment you hear them. Yet proving them can be impossible. This theorem has ...