Proofs are a fundamental and cherished part of mathematics. Throughout the field's long and storied history, they have been the bread and butter of the profession and required reading for students of the subject. Proofs provide an important meditational tool, an objective challenge and in doing so, a means by which arguments in mathematics can be verified. Proofs are an effective tool in the world of mathematics because they provide an authoritative and mathematical confirmation of claims. Through the use of rigorous logical arguments and canonical notation, to demonstrate that a certain statement is true or false, proofs allow for a high degree of certainty. They provide a clear understanding of why a result is true and in some cases, why it must always be true. Proofs therefore provide us with the utmost degree of confidence in a mathematical assertion. For this reason, the proof has become the gold standard of mathematics - a means of verification for mathematical claims. This concept has been so important to mathematics, that the term “proof” is used in reference to the written body of work that accompany theorems and lemmas. Proofs aim to shield mathematics from falsehoods and point to the beauty of the discipline.