This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information The oldest mathematics journal in the Western Hemisphere in continuous publication, the American Journal of Mathematics ranks as ...

Richard Elwes reports on Harvey Friedman’s fascinating work on incompleteness in Boolean relation theory, but it is quite a stretch to extend his work to ask “are the rules of arithmetic… unsound?” ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1994, an earthquake of a proof shook up the mathematical world. The mathematician Andrew Wiles had finally settled Fermat’s Last ...