Proof is David Auburn’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play about a young woman named Catherine, the daughter of renowned mathematics ...

GPT-5.4 Pro cracked a conjecture in number theory that had stumped generations of mathematicians, using a proof strategy that ...

Just one piece of the first Broadway revival of David Auburn’s most famous play answers the question “What exactly is ‘Proof’ ...

NEW YORK — What a fantastic gift the playwright David Auburn and the director Thomas Kail have given to Ayo Edebiri.

The actress stars as a haunted genius opposite Don Cheadle as her father in David Auburn’s 2001 drama. This revival, though, ...

In the revival of David Auburn’s Tony Award-winning play, a young woman clings to her sanity and genuis in the wake of an ...

What starts as a straightforward shed ramp build quickly turns into a full DIY reality check involving angle tests, circular-saw cuts, excavation, leveling, stone backfill, and composite decking ...

The race is on to develop an artificial intelligence that can do pure mathematics, and top mathematicians just threw down the gauntlet with an exam of actual, unsolved problems that are relevant to ...

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, ...

This is an updated version of a story first published on May 5, 2024. For many high school students returning to class, it may seem like geometry and trigonometry were created by the Greeks as a form ...

The Langlands program has inspired and befuddled mathematicians for more than 50 years. A major advance has now opened up new worlds for them to explore One of the biggest stories in science has been ...