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This book presents chapters exploring the most recent developments
in the role of technology in proving. The full range of topics
related to this theme are explored, including computer proving,
digital collaboration among mathematicians, mathematics teaching in
schools and universities, and the use of the internet as a site of
proof learning. Proving is sometimes thought to be the aspect of
mathematical activity most resistant to the influence of
technological change. While computational methods are well known to
have a huge importance in applied mathematics, there is a
perception that mathematicians seeking to derive new mathematical
results are unaffected by the digital era. The reality is quite
different. Digital technologies have transformed how mathematicians
work together, how proof is taught in schools and universities, and
even the nature of proof itself. Checking billions of cases in
extremely large but finite sets, impossible a few decades ago, has
now become a standard method of proof. Distributed proving, by
teams of mathematicians working independently on sections of a
problem, has become very much easier as digital communication
facilitates the sharing and comparison of results. Proof assistants
and dynamic proof environments have influenced the verification or
refutation of conjectures, and ultimately how and why proof is
taught in schools. And techniques from computer science for
checking the validity of programs are being used to verify
mathematical proofs. Chapters in this book include not only
research reports and case studies, but also theoretical essays,
reviews of the state of the art in selected areas, and historical
studies. The authors are experts in the field.
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