Hacker News with Generative AI: Proof

Math's 'Bunkbed Conjecture' Has Been Debunked (quantamagazine.org)
It was intuitive, even obvious. It was also wrong.
Mathematics, Conjectures, Proof
25 points by nhatcher 20 days ago | 3 comments
Euclid's Proof that √2 is Irrational (mathsisfun.com)
Mathematics, Proof, Irrational Numbers
172 points by thunderbong 92 days ago | 93 comments
A simple proof that pi is irrational [pdf] (1946) (ams.org)
Mathematics, Proof, History
66 points by pipopi 106 days ago | 55 comments
Monumental proof settles geometric Langlands conjecture (quantamagazine.org)
Mathematics, Proof, Conjectures
203 points by jandrewrogers 118 days ago | 35 comments
Turing's topological proof that every written alphabet is finite (2010) (divisbyzero.com)
Mathematics, Computer Science, Theory, Proof, Alphabet
138 points by 082349872349872 121 days ago | 114 comments
The "Horgan Surface" and "The Death of Proof" (johnhorgan.org)
Philosophy, Science, Proof
22 points by mathgenius 132 days ago | 0 comments
A proof of proof by infinite descent (blogspot.com)
Mathematics, Proof, Logic
124 points by matt_d 143 days ago | 54 comments
The Point of the Banach Tarski Theorem (2015) (solipsys.co.uk)
Mathematics, Paradox, Proof
108 points by ColinWright 148 days ago | 76 comments
A seventh-grader student found a beautiful proof to Thales' Theorem (2002) (cut-the-knot.org)
Mathematics, Geometry, Education, Proof
139 points by samdung 175 days ago | 95 comments
Proof of geometric Langlands conjecture so complex almost no one can explain it (newscientist.com)
Mathematics, Theoretical Physics, Conjecture, Proof
63 points by isaacfrond 182 days ago | 62 comments
First proof that "plunging regions" exist around black holes in space (ox.ac.uk)
Black Holes, Astronomy, Space, Physics, Proof
79 points by carbocation 187 days ago | 103 comments
Teens who discovered new way to prove Pythagoras' theorem uncover more proofs (theguardian.com)
Mathematics, Education, Proof, Geometry
68 points by contingencies 199 days ago | 13 comments
Proving Heron’s formula by complex number (2013) (wordpress.com)
Mathematics, Geometry, Proof
45 points by mehulashah 221 days ago | 21 comments