{"id":234292,"date":"2026-03-31T02:02:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T07:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/in-math-rigor-is-vital-but-are-digitized-proofs-taking-it-too-far"},"modified":"2026-03-31T02:02:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T07:02:22","slug":"in-math-rigor-is-vital-but-are-digitized-proofs-taking-it-too-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/in-math-rigor-is-vital-but-are-digitized-proofs-taking-it-too-far","title":{"rendered":"In Math, Rigor Is Vital. But Are Digitized Proofs Taking It Too Far?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/in-math-rigor-is-vital-but-are-digitized-proofs-taking-it-too-far.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The quest to make mathematics rigorous has a long and spotty history \u2014 one mathematicians can learn from as they push to formalize everything in the computer program Lean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The quest to make mathematics rigorous has a long and spotty history \u2014 one mathematicians can learn from as they push to formalize everything in the computer program Lean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":715,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,2229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/715"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}