Review: PROOF by Cory Conley
David Auburn's Proof has, among other things, one of the neatest titles around. It sounds like an investigative mystery play, and in a sense, it is: the plot centers on the discovery of an important mathematical proof about prime numbers, and also on the mystery of the work's authorship. Did a legendary but mentally ill math professor pump out this last gasp of genius before dying--or was it actually written by his u…