In Math, Rigor Is Vital. But Are Digitized Proofs Taking It Too Far? Kristina Armitage/Quanta Magazine In ancient Greece, Euclid showed that if you agree on a small list of preliminary principles, or axioms, you can use deductive reasoning to reveal all sorts of new mathematical truths. But although these early proofs, as mathematicians call them, were derived using the laws of logic, they sometim...