The Proof in the Code: How a Truth Machine Is Transforming Math and AI

“The most interesting book I’ve ever read about math.” —Kevin Roose, New York Times tech columnist and co-host of the Hard Fork podcast

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

It began as an obscure bug-checking program at Microsoft Research developed by a lone computer engineer named Leo de Moura. Then an unlikely crew of mathematical misfits caught wind of it and began to adopt it with...