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A proof (preprint) that Zeta5 is irrational

saw this preprint: https://zenodo.org/records/22826419 Was pretty skeptical at first, but after a first pass I havent found an obvious issue. GPT also couldnt find a concrete...

Measure theory study group and lecture series

This post is to let people know about a lecture series (and accompanying study group) on measure theory that will run on the (blue) math...

When mathematicians calculate pi out to trillions of digits, how do they verify they answer?

Apparently Pi has been calculated out to 314 trillion digits, which is a mind-boggling number! What I'm curious about is what is the process by...

Why are proofs for the problems we care about short enough to discover?

It seems like a somewhat amazing coincidence that proofs are ever discoverable. Formalized proofs that we have identified can be long, but compared to all...