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Quanta Books @quantabooks.org · 15/09/2026

Read more about how these watershed proofs are shaking up the field and how mathematicians are reflecting on their profession and why we do math: www.quantabooks.org/is-ai-solvin....

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Is AI Solving Math Too Fast?

In a world where AI can rapidly solve longstanding problems like Navier-Stokes, some mathematicians are calling for a more deliberative process to help preserve the field’s core values.

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Quanta Books @quantabooks.org · 15/09/2026

Lean has also become the go-to way to verify math—@anthropic.com shouted out @kevinhartnett.bsky.social's THE PROOF IN THE CODE while announcing how Claude formalized Fermat’s Last Theorem: www.anthropic.com/research/for.... Learn more about the history of Lean: www.quantabooks.org/books/the-pr...

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The Proof in the Code - Quanta Books

The inside story of Lean, a computer program that answers the age-old question: How do you know if something is true?

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Quanta Books @quantabooks.org · 15/09/2026

Terry explores what it means to treat math not just as a collection of unsolved problems but as a way of thinking in his forthcoming book, SIX MATH ESSENTIALS, publishing October 27th. Preorder here: www.quantabooks.org/books/six-ma....

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Six Math Essentials - Quanta Books

The “Mozart of mathematics” invites readers on a brief tour of six core ideas—numbers, algebra, geometry, probability, analysis, and dynamics—that capture the beauty and power of mathematical thinking...

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Quanta Books @quantabooks.org · 15/09/2026

Amid OpenAI’s news that they’d solved the Navier-Stokes problem—verified w/ Lean—many mathematicians, including Quanta Books author Terence Tao (@teorth.bsky.social), worry that the rapid pace of AI proofs could short-circuit the main purpose of math: “to increase your understanding of a subject.”

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Will Ratcliff @wcratcliff.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Four billion years ago, Earth was a sterile rock. Today it is teeming with life, from simple microbes to extraordinarily complex societies that span the globe. How does that happen? I'm writing a book about the answer: Life Unbounded, from Quanta Books. www.quantabooks.org/books/life-u...

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Life Unbounded

In LIFE UNBOUNDED, pioneering evolutionary biologist William C. Ratcliff reveals that every great leap in life’s complexity, from the first cells to human culture, was driven by the same underlying pr...

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Thomas Lin @7homaslin.com · 05/09/2026

AnthropicAI just announced a formalization of Fermat’s Last Theorem using 13 million lines of Lean code. First on their recommended reading list is @kevinhartnett.bsky.social’s new book THE PROOF IN THE CODE: www.quantabooks.org/books/the-pr... Source: www.anthropic.com/research/for...

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Simons Foundation @simonsfoundation.org · 01/09/2026

Science imprint @quantabooks.org is publishing books that shape the conversation around cutting-edge #science and #math, illuminating their central questions and fundamental ideas for everyone. Read more about their new and upcoming titles: bit.ly/4cgWegN

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Quanta Books Opens a New Chapter in Science Publishing

Quanta Books Opens a New Chapter in Science Publishing on Simons Foundation

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Quanta Books @quantabooks.org · 01/09/2026

Drawing on sixteen years of watching multicellular life evolve from scratch in his lab, Ratcliff reveals how a single evolutionary process drove every great leap in life’s complexity, from the first cells to human culture. Learn more here: www.quantabooks.org/books/life-u...

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Life Unbounded

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Quanta Books @quantabooks.org · 01/09/2026

🚨New book announcement! 🚨Evolutionary biologist William C. Ratcliff’s (@wcratcliff.bsky.social) LIFE UNBOUNDED (forthcoming 2029) delivers a sweeping narrative of the emergence of complex life, and how a sterile planet transformed into the rich mosaic of beings on Earth today.

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Quanta Books @quantabooks.org · 25/08/2026

Preorder Terry’s book SIX MATH ESSENTIALS here: www.quantabooks.org/books/six-math-essentials. Read more about our events and how mathematicians are thinking about the future of AI in math in our latest blog post: www.quantabooks.org/quanta-books-at-maths-main-event/.

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Quanta Books @quantabooks.org · 25/08/2026

In July, Quanta Books attended the 2026 ICM in Philly, where we met readers, sold books, and hosted 3 events: a signing with @teorth.bsky.social or his forthcoming book and a talk with @kevinhartnett.bsky.social and publisher @7homaslin.com on Kevin’s book THE PROOF IN THE CODE (& another signing).

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Quanta Books @quantabooks.org · 22/07/2026

Cover reveal for David Tong's EVERYTHING IS FIELDS, publishing March 16, 2027! From one of today’s leading theoretical physicists comes a witty, exuberant tour of quantum fields, the fluid-like substances that make up our entire universe.

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Quanta Books @quantabooks.org · 08/07/2026

Register for ICM 2026 events on the Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.com/e/math-festi... Register for Kevin Hartnett’s conversation with Thomas Lin: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-proof-... Order new and forthcoming Quanta books: www.quantabooks.org

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Quanta Books @quantabooks.org · 08/07/2026

Quanta Books will be at Booth #102, raffling out swag and selling copies of THE PROOF IN THE CODE. View our full event schedule: Saturday, July 25 11AM–12PM: Terence Tao’s bookplate signing. 1:15PM–2:15PM: Kevin Hartnett's conversation with Thomas Lin, followed by book signing.

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Quanta Books @quantabooks.org · 08/07/2026

Terence Tao will sign bookplates for his forthcoming title, SIX MATH ESSENTIALS (10/27/26), an elegant distillation of six core ideas in math. Kevin Hartnett and publisher Thomas Lin (@7homaslin.com) will explore the future of math and AI covered in his gripping new book, THE PROOF IN THE CODE.

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Quanta Books @quantabooks.org · 08/07/2026

Meet Quanta Books authors Terence Tao (@teorth.bsky.social) (SIX MATH ESSENTIALS) and Kevin Hartnett (@kevinhartnett.bsky.social) (THE PROOF IN THE CODE) at the upcoming International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM)––SATURDAY, JULY 25, in the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia!

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Quanta Books @quantabooks.org · 06/07/2026

The programming language Lean is “at the heart of the AI model training ecosystem,” explains @kevinhartnett.bsky.social, author of THE PROOF IN THE CODE. Watch the whole conversation with his editor, Thomas Lin, at the Simons Foundation (@simonsfoundation.org): www.quantabooks.org/kevin-hartne...

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Quanta Books @quantabooks.org · 02/07/2026

What are the technologies driving the AI revolution in math? @kevinhartnett.bsky.social, author of THE PROOF IN THE CODE, draws illuminating parallels between computer programming and math proofs in a talk at the Simons Foundation (@simonsfoundation.org).

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Quanta Books @quantabooks.org · 01/07/2026

@kevinhartnett.bsky.social's book THE PROOF IN THE CODE is a powerful guide to today’s “sociological transformation in math.” Watch his full conversation at the @simonsfoundation.org: www.quantabooks.org/kevin-hartne... Order THE PROOF IN THE CODE: www.quantabooks.org/books/the-pr...

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Thomas Lin @7homaslin.com · 24/06/2026

If you’re in the Philadelphia area on July 25, stop by the @quantabooks.org booth at the International Congress of Mathematicians at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. Terry Tao (@teorth.bsky.social) will be signing bookplates from 11am to noon.

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Quanta Books @quantabooks.org · 22/06/2026

More on the cutting edge of math, the possibilities of AI, and inroads into human-computer collaboration on The Quanta Podcast, where @kevinhartnett.bsky.social discusses his new book THE PROOF IN THE CODE. Listen: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... Order here: www.quantabooks.org/books/the-pr...

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The 'Truth Machine' That Is Changing Math

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Quanta Books @quantabooks.org · 22/06/2026

With the programming language Lean, “math proofs can be written in a different way than they have been in millennia.” The future of truth may lie not on paper but in code.

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Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.org · 16/06/2026

The software package known as Lean — which can verify mathematical proofs — is bringing a major shift to the math world. But not everyone is sure it is good for the field. Tune in to The Quanta Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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The 'Truth Machine' That Is Changing Math

Podcast Episode · The Quanta Podcast · June 16 · 34m

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Grant Sanderson @3blue1brown.com · 10/06/2026

@quantabooks.org just released their first book, on the story of Lean by @kevinhartnett.bsky.social. It's a great story, about a pretty significant part of what's happening in math right now. www.quantabooks.org/books/the-pr...

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The Proof in the Code - Quanta Books

The inside story of Lean, a computer program that answers the age-old question: How do you know if something is true?

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Simons Foundation @simonsfoundation.org · 09/06/2026

In his book, "The Proof in the Code: How a Truth Machine Is Transforming Math and AI," @kevinhartnett.bsky.social tells the story of computer program Lean in an effort to answer a longstanding question: Can computers reveal universal truths? Out today from @quantabooks.org: bit.ly/43X5To1

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Quanta Books @quantabooks.org · 08/06/2026

“With marvelous clarity and narrative flair," acclaimed mathematician and author Steven Strogatz (@stevenstrogatz.com) declares, THE PROOF IN THE CODE “introduces us to ... the people reimagining what math can be.”

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Quanta Books @quantabooks.org · 04/06/2026

As Grant Sanderson (@3blue1brown.com) says, the program Lean is "one of the most important things happening to math right now—future generations may come to regard it as the Euclid’s Elements of our time."

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Quanta Books @quantabooks.org · 03/06/2026

From award-winning science writer Anil Ananthaswamy (@anilananth.bsky.social): To learn about the future of computer science, math and AI, read Kevin Hartnett's (@kevinhartnett.bsky.social) THE PROOF IN THE CODE. Available June 9.

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Quanta Books @quantabooks.org · 28/05/2026

Today, Lean continues this legacy of truth-seeking, giving mathematicians a powerful, interactive tool with which to fulfill Gödel’s dreams of “prov[ing] any theorem using nothing but a few mechanical rules.” (6/7)

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Quanta Books @quantabooks.org · 28/05/2026

In 1931, Kurt Gödel shook the world with his incompleteness theorems, which argued that there were limits to knowledge: no formal system—a set of rules from which all else was supposed to follow—could ever be complete. Even then, Gödel was optimistic about formalized math. (5/7)

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Quanta Books @quantabooks.org · 28/05/2026

Later, Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead’s Principia Mathematica (1910-1913) proposed a new formal system—type theory—for expressing, verifying, and maybe even discovering new mathematics. If the foundation was solid, maybe the resultant structure would be too. (4/7)

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Quanta Books @quantabooks.org · 28/05/2026

In the seventeenth century, Gottfried Leibniz dreamed of a universal symbolic language, his characteristica universalis, that he believed would be capable of expressing—and verifying—any rational thought. Formalizing, rather than fighting, would resolve disagreements. (3/7)

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Quanta Books @quantabooks.org · 28/05/2026

In the fourth and third century BCE, Aristotle and Euclid laid the groundwork for rigorously verifying mathematics by representing it as a formalized, rational, symbolic language that could be objectively evaluated. (2/7)

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Quanta Books @quantabooks.org · 28/05/2026

The programming language and math proof assistant Lean is the latest tool in a millennia-long search to discover and verify the truth. A thread: (1/7)

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Quanta Books @quantabooks.org · 26/05/2026

Want to know what the next phase of human-machine relations looks like? Futurist Amy Webb (@amywebb.bsky.social) points to Kevin Hartnett's (@kevinhartnett.bsky.social) THE PROOF IN THE CODE.

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Quanta Books @quantabooks.org · 19/05/2026

In a world of hallucinating black box AI models, it's increasingly hard to know with complete certainty if something is true. Lean offers a way forward. Read more in Kevin Hartnett's (@kevinhartnett.bsky.social) THE PROOF IN THE CODE, publishing June 9.

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Quanta Books @quantabooks.org · 15/05/2026

The talk will be held at the Simons Foundation. Attendees will receive a special THE PROOF IN THE CODE bookplate signed by the author. Free to join, but registration is required: www.eventbrite.com/e/building-a....

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Building a Truth Machine

Registration opens 3 weeks before the event and closes at 2PM day-of. Review the full list of registration & entrance requirements below.

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Quanta Books @quantabooks.org · 15/05/2026

Join us on 6/5 at 6 PM for an SF Presents talk with Kevin Hartnett (@kevinhartnett.bsky.social) and Thomas Lin (@7homaslin.com) as they explore the future of math and grapple with the existential question: Can computers reveal universal truths?

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Quanta Books @quantabooks.org · 13/05/2026

Kevin Hartnett (@kevinhartnett.bsky.social)'s THE PROOF IN THE CODE is available on June 9. Preorder here: www.quantabooks.org/books/the-pr...

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The Proof in the Code - Quanta Books

The inside story of Lean, a computer program that answers the age-old question: How do you know if something is true?

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Quanta Books @quantabooks.org · 13/05/2026

“[THE PROOF IN THE CODE] is science writing at its best: technically precise, conceptually ambitious, and consistently accessible. ... A rare achievement.” — Seth Mnookin (@sethmnookin.bsky.social), author of The Panic Virus

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