A glance at the November issue of Notices of the American Mathematical Society: What do mathematicians do? Mathematicians often have difficulty describing what they do in a way that is accessible to ...

Coaching sessions at the People’s Improv Theater were aimed at helping math experts connect with laypeople and give engaging presentations. By James Barron Good morning. It’s Wednesday. Today we’ll ...

What makes a proof stronger than a guess? What does evidence look like in the realm of mathematical abstraction? Hear the mathematician Melanie Matchett Wood explain how probability helps to guide ...

Since the start of the 20th century, the heart of mathematics has been the proof — a rigorous, logical argument for whether a given statement is true or false. Mathematicians’ careers are measured by ...

Mathematicians explore ideas by proposing conjectures and proving them with theorems. For centuries, they built these proofs line by careful line, and most math researchers still work like that today.