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Posted October 21st, 2024 |
GIMPS certifies new Mersenne prime |
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Posted October 14th, 2024 |
New Mersenne prime in GIMPS verification |
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Posted October 8th, 2024 |
2024 Nobel physics prize awarded for computer science |
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Posted October 4th, 2024 |
Forty-year-old 'intuitively obvious' conjecture shown to be false |
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Posted September 29th, 2024 |
In memoriam Richard Hamilton (1943–2024) |
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Posted September 25th, 2024 |
Ramsey number R(5) gets tighter bound |
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Posted September 17th, 2024 |
Western and Fields Institute launch mathematics centre |
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Posted September 4th, 2024 |
UK's Royal Society seeks radical reform of maths ed. |
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Posted September 3rd, 2024 |
Brady Haran Wins the 2024 Christopher Zeeman Medal |
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Posted August 13th, 2024 |
UK's Protect Pure Maths relaunches as Campaign for Mathematical Sciences |
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Posted August 10th, 2024 |
AMR announces prize for mathematics in AI |
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Posted August 6th, 2024 |
Heather Tewkesbury President elect of UK's IMA |
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Posted July 20, 2024 |
65th IMO 2024 announces results |
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Posted July 11, 2024 |
2024 Basic Science Lifetime Awards announced |
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Posted July 4, 2024 |
Noga Alon and Adi Shamir win 2024 Wolf prize |
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Posted June 28, 2024 |
LMS announces 2024 prize winners |
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Posted June 24, 2024 |
Save Ontario's Science Centre petition passes 65K mark |
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Posted June 17, 2024 |
Mathematicians honoured in UK's King's Birthday Honours |
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Posted June 10, 2024 |
Alain Goriely is 34th Gresham Professor of Geometry |
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Posted June 4, 2024 |
Progress on the Riemann Hypothesis announced |
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Posted May 27, 2024 |
Crows display human-like counting skills |
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Posted May 22, 2024 |
Peter Sarnak wins 2024 Shaw Prize in Mathematics |
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Posted May 16, 2024 |
Montpellier university esplanade honours Grothendieck |
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Posted May 13, 2024 |
Ryan Williams wins 2024 Gödel Prize |
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Posted May 11, 2024 |
In memoriam James Harris Simons (1938–2024) |
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Posted May 10, 2024 |
Alison Etheridge appointed first President of UK Academy for the Mathematical Sciences |
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Posted May 1, 2024 |
Project to formalise FLT proof launches |
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Posted April 17, 2024 |
Quantum lattice algorithm potentially weakens cryptosystems |
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Posted April 15, 2024 |
Samir Patel becomes Quanta magazine's new editor-in-chief |
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Posted April 10, 2024 |
Abel winner Wigderson scores Turing double |
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Posted March 23, 2024 |
Formalized mathematics gets diamond access Annals |
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Posted March 20, 2024 |
Michel Talagrand wins 2024 Abel prize |
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Posted February 29, 2024 |
Andrew Wiles Oxford seminar sparks interest |
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Posted February 21, 2024 |
Decimal point already in use in 1440s |
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Posted January 31, 2024 |
Claire Voisin wins 2024 Crafoord prize in mathematics |
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Posted January 27, 2024 |
Fixed point theorem demonstrates unattainable stability in machine learning |
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Posted January 22, 2024 |
In memoriam Nicholas John Higham (1961–2024) |
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Posted January 17, 2024 |
Google announces AI system that solves Olympiad geometry problems |
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Posted December 30, 2023 |
St Andrews Mathematics scores double in UK New Year's Honours |
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Posted December 20, 2023 |
Sphere packing density announcement breaks 75-year-old bound |
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Posted December 14, 2023 |
In memoriam Dominic Welsh (1938–2023) |
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Posted December 5, 2023 |
Additive combinatorics breakthrough formally verified |
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Posted November 27, 2023 |
$10m AI math olympiad challange launched |
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Posted November 22, 2023 |
UK to create National Academy for mathematical sciences |
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Posted November 13, 2023 |
Breakthrough in search for "holy grail of additive combinatorics" |
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Posted November 5, 2023 |
In memoriam Gary Seitz (1943–2023) |
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Posted October 18, 2023 |
MoMath and UK Maths Trust lauch Einstein Mad Hat Awards |
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Posted October 13, 2023 |
£1 million UK project to formalise Fermat |
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Posted October 6, 2023 |
Sabine Hossenfelder's science blog passes 1m subscribers |
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Posted October 4, 2023 |
Paris gets a museum of mathematics |
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Posted September 22, 2023 |
In memoriam Anthony Donald Keedwell (1928–2023) |
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Posted September 17, 2023 |
2024 Breakthrough mathematics prize awarded to Simon Brendle |
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Posted August 23, 2023 |
In memoriam C.R. Rao (1920–2023) |
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Posted June 19, 2023 |
Caroline Series, former LMS president among UK's honoured |
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Posted June 16, 2023 |
New Zealand university mathematicians under threat |
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Posted June 13, 2023 |
New Japanese university to teach controversial ABC proof method |
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Posted June 8, 2023 |
Another big Ramsey Theory breakthrough announced |
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Posted May 31, 2023 |
Vladimir Drinfeld and Shing-Tung Yau win 2023 Shaw mathematics prize |
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Posted May 23, 2023 |
Prime number expert elected to UK's Royal Society |
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Posted May 5, 2023 |
In memoriam Vicky Neale (1984–2023) |
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Posted April 18, 2023 |
Ukraine girls top European scoreboard at EGMO 2023 |
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Posted April 8, 2023 |
US teens' Pythagoras proof gains acceptance |
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Posted March 23, 2023 |
Luis Caffarelli wins 2023 Abel prize |
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Posted March 21, 2023 |
Single-tile aperiodic plane tiling announced |
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Posted March 16, 2023 |
Big Ramsey theory breakthrough announced |
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Posted February 20, 2023 |
Mathematical biologist first woman appointed top UK science advisor |
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Posted February 15, 2023 |
In memoriam David Singmaster (1938–2023) |
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Posted February 14, 2023 |
Arxiv post gives precise density condition for 3-term arithmetic progressions in the integers |
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Posted February 8, 2023 |
2023 Wolf prize in mathematics awarded to Ingrid Daubechies |
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Posted January 26, 2023 |
In memoriam Martin Davis (1928–2023) |
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Posted January 8, 2023 |
In memoriam Yuri Manin (1937–2023) |
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Posted November 17, 2022 |
Breakthrough announced on Union-closed Set Conjecture |
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Posted November 6, 2022 |
Number theorists consider consquences of Yitang Zhang's claimed Landau–Siegel breakthrough |
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Posted September 9, 2022 |
Peter Scholze joins another exclusive club |
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Posted July 20, 2022 |
Simon Singh wins 2022 Christopher Zeeman medal |
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Posted July 5, 2022 |
Proportion of women winning Fields medals jumps by 88% |
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Posted July 4, 2022 |
Hiraku Nakajima elected next President of International Mathematical Union |
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Posted June 3, 2022 |
"Math or Not" campaign protests forced closure of Istanbul Center for Mathematical Sciences |
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Posted June 2, 2022 |
Historian of mathematics awarded Queen's birthday honour |
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Posted May 24, 2022 |
Noga Alon, Ehud Hrushovski joint winners of Shaw prize in mathematics |
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Posted May 12, 2022 |
In memoriam John H. Coates (1945–2022) |
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Posted April 27, 2022 |
Global study finds mathematics textbook exercises are failing students |
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Posted April 11, 2022 |
Japanese TV broadcast reignites ABC debate |
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Posted April 7, 2022 |
In memoriam Jerrold Tunnell (1950–2022) |
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Posted April 1, 2022 |
Jean-Michel Blanquer wins 2022 Prix d’Alembert |
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Posted March 23, 2022 |
David Sullivan wins 2022 Abel prize |
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Posted March 14, 2022 |
In memoriam Yulia Zdanovska (2001–2022) |
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Posted March 6, 2022 |
Breakthrough Prize laureates condemn Russian invasion of Ukraine |
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Posted March 3, 2022 |
Russian hosting of ICM2022 withdrawn by IMU |
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Posted February 23, 2022 |
American Mathematical Society urges boycott of St Petersburg ICM |
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Posted February 3, 2022 |
European Mathematical Society in major open access move |
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Posted January 10, 2022 |
Mathematician risks "China initiative" criminal conviction |
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Posted December 10, 2021 |
Proof announced of 40-year-old Erdős–Graham conjecture |
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Posted December 6, 2021 |
In memoriam Jacques Tits (1930–2021) |
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Posted October 4, 2021 |
In memoriam Joachim Neubüser (1932–2021) |
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Posted August 31, 2021 |
Bourbaki commemorated with plaque in Paris |
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Posted August 17, 2021 |
Improved experimental confirmation of irrationality of half unit-circle circumference announced |
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Posted July 30, 2021 |
MAA announces 2021 Expository Mathematical Writing awards |
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Posted July 27, 2021 |
In memoriam Robert Parris Moses (1935–2021) |
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Posted July 26, 2021 |
Anna Keisenhofer wins Olympic gold |
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Posted July 24, 2021 |
In memoriam Steven Weinberg (1933–2021) |
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Posted July 14, 2021 |
Inaugural Hedy Lamarr prize goes to Rebecca Hoyle |
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Posted July 12, 2021 |
UK press adds weight to Protect Pure Maths campaign |
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Posted July 2, 2021 |
New York's MoMath reopens its doors |
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Posted June 7, 2021 |
Colloquium will support Russian political detainee Azat Miftakhov |
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Posted May 31, 2021 |
Slovenia issues postage stamp to celebrate European Congress of Mathematics |
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Posted May 30, 2021 |
Clay Math Institute Millenium Problems turn 21 |
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Posted May 21, 2021 |
Leicester Pure Mathematics legal fighting fund gets £20K boost |
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Posted May 11, 2021 |
Mathematicians of the African Diaspora launches "Inspire the Next Gen" fund |
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Posted May 7, 2021 |
Deep Mind scientists recognised in 2021 UK Royal Society fellowships |
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Posted May 1, 2021 |
Machine learning refutation of combinatorics conjectures asserted |
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Posted April 15, 2021 |
10th European Girls' Mathematical Olympiad concludes (virtually) in Georgia |
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Posted April 10, 2021 |
Legal fighting fund launched for Leicester Pure Mathematics |
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Posted March 31, 2021 |
Aho and Ullman win 2020 Turing award |
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Posted March 25, 2021 |
New British banknote features Alan Turing |
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Posted March 23, 2021 |
AMS task force delivers major report on racial discrimination |
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Posted March 17, 2021 |
László Lovász, Avi Widgerson 2021 Abel prize winners |
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Posted March 13, 2021 |
Google quantum supremacy spoofed |
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Posted March 12, 2021 |
In memoriam John Polkinghorne (1930–2021) |
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Posted March 9, 2021 |
Controversial ABC proof appears in print |
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Posted March 3, 2021 |
IMU voices concern over mathematicians arrested in Russia |
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Posted February 23, 2021 |
Counterexample to Kaplansky's Unit Conjecture announced |
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Posted February 12, 2021 |
In memoriam Isadore Singer (1924–2021) |
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Posted February 4, 2021 |
Ulrike Tillmann next Director of UK's Isaac Newton Institute |
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Posted February 3, 2021 |
Quasi-polynomial-time unknot recognition algorithm announced |
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Posted February 2, 2021 |
Backlash grows over job cuts at UK's Leicester University |
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Posted January 30, 2021 |
UK's Leicester University thinks pure mathematics does not shape up for excellence |
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Posted January 28, 2021 |
Forthcoming seminar on unknot recognition causes stir |
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Posted January 27, 2021 |
Sylvia Richardson to be next president of UK's Royal Statistical Society |
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Posted January 25, 2021 |
Cheryl Praeger appointed Companion of the Order of Australia |
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Posted January 23, 2021 |
Paris to get museum of mathematics in 2021 |
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Posted January 22, 2021 |
In memoriam Alan Hoffman (1924–2021) |
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Posted January 19, 2021 |
AMS launches diamond open access Communications |
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Posted January 16, 2021 |
Scientific advisor to US president elect Biden has mathematics DPhil |
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Posted January 14, 2021 |
Extremal proof announced of Erdős-Faber-Lovász conjecture. |
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Posted January 8, 2021 |
Maxwell Institute launches annual Atiyah Lecture |
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Posted December 18, 2020 |
In memoriam Peter M. Neumann (1940–2020) |
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Posted December 9, 2020 |
Fields medallist offers challange to automated theorem provers |
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Posted November 30, 2020 |
Protein geometry challenge solved by neural net |
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Posted November 20, 2020 |
Birth of Benoit Mandelbrot celebrated by Google |
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Posted November 17, 2020 |
Reading Euclid project announces major new online resource |
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Posted November 4, 2020 |
Association for Women in Mathematics announces 2021 Fellows |
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Posted October 7, 2020 |
Roger Penrose shares 2020 physics Nobel prize |
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Posted September 11, 2020 |
Inaugural Breakthrough Maryam Mirzakhani prizes announced |
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Posted September 8, 2020 |
In memoriam Vaughan Jones (1952–2020) |
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Posted August 25, 2020 |
In memoriam Peter Borwein (1953–2020) |
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Posted August 20, 2020 |
Asymptotic proof of Rota's basis conjecture announced |
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Posted July 20, 2020 |
Stand-up mathematician wins Christopher Zeeman Medal |
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Posted July 17, 2020 |
Georgia Tech announces Robin Thomas Memorial Fellowship |
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Posted July 12, 2020 |
Breakthrough progress on Erdős conjecture announced |
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Posted July 7, 2020 |
In memoriam Ronald Graham (1935–2020) |
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Posted May 21, 2020 |
Undergraduate announces new bound in Ramsey theory |
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Posted May 13, 2020 |
NAG celebrates 50th birthday |
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Posted May 11, 2020 |
Cynthia Dwork awarded 2020 Knuth Prize |
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Posted May 6, 2020 |
Statistician confirmed as Royal Society president elect |
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Posted May 1, 2020 |
Cambridge mathematician becomes Royal Society's youngest living fellow |
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Posted April 29, 2020 |
In memoriam Robert May (1936–2020) |
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Posted April 12, 2020 |
In memoriam John Horton Conway (1937–2020) |
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Posted April 4, 2020 |
Publication of ABC proof sparks controversy |
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Posted April 1, 2020 |
Robin A. Moser & Gábor Tardos win 2020 Gödel prize |
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Posted March 27, 2020 |
Polymath proposal to enable COVID-19 data repository |
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Posted March 18, 2020 |
Hillel Furstenberg and Gregory Margulis win 2020 Abel Prize in Mathematics |
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Posted March 13, 2020 |
In memoriam Richard K. Guy (1916–2020) |
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Posted February 29, 2020 |
In memoriam Freeman Dyson (1923–2020) |
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Posted February 10, 2020 |
In memoriam Jillian Beardwood (1934–2019) |
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Posted January 31, 2020 |
In memoriam Louis Nirenberg (1925–2020) |
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Posted January 20, 2020 |
Complexity theorists claim quantum-theoretical refutation of Connes Embedding Conjecture |
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Posted November 20, 2019 |
New Breakthrough prize honours Maryam Mirzakhani |
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Posted July 4, 2019 |
30-year-old complexity conjecture proved |
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Posted July 1, 2019 |
Combinatorics at Strathclyde University threatened |
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Posted June 7, 2019 |
New York Times prints Turing obituary |
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Posted May 26, 2019 |
In memoriam Murray Gell-Mann (1929–2019) |
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Posted May 15, 2019 |
Turkey condemned for terror charges against mathematician Tuna Altinel |
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Posted May 11, 2019 |
Counterexample to 50-year-old graph theory conjecture announced |
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Posted May 4, 2019 |
In memoriam Goro Shimura (1930–2019) |
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Posted May 2, 2019 |
IMU launches Women in Mathematics newsletter |
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Posted April 18, 2019 |
UK Royal Society announces 2019 fellowships |
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Posted April 15, 2019 |
European Girls’ Mathematical Olympiad won by USA |
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Posted April 11, 2019 |
In memoriam Elwyn Berlekamp (1940–2019) |
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Posted April 5, 2019 |
2019 Knuth Prize awarded to Avi Widgerson |
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Posted March 29, 2019 |
Integer multiplication in n log n time announced |
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Posted March 28, 2019 |
2018 Turing Award goes to deep learning pioneers |
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Posted March 27, 2019 |
>800 scientists denounce misuse of statistical significance |
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Posted March 19, 2019 |
Karen Uhlenbeck wins 2019 Abel prize |
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Posted March 11, 2019 |
In memoriam Simon Norton (1952–2019) |
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Posted February 12, 2019 |
Mathematicians honoured by L’Oréal-UNESCO international awards for women in science |
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Posted January 3, 2019 |
In memoriam, Peter Swinnerton-Dyer (1927–2018) |
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Posted January 1, 2019 |
In memoriam, Jean Bourgain (1954–2018), Elias Stein (1931–2018) |
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Posted December 29, 2018 |
Fields medal inner inaugural distinguished chair at US National Museum of Mathematics |
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Posted December 23, 2018 |
New largest prime identified |
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Posted December 11, 2018 |
In memoriam Shoucheng Zhang (1963–2018) |
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Posted November 12, 2018 |
'Nobel prize of statistics' awarded to Bradley Efron |
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Posted October 17, 2018 |
2019 Breakthrough prize in mathematics awarded to Vincent Lafforgue |
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Posted September 21, 2018 |
ABC proof receives explicit challenge |
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Posted September 14, 2018 |
French state admits role in murder of mathematician Maurice Audin |
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Posted September 8, 2018 |
Internet debates alleged supression of controversial article |
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Posted August 8, 2018 |
Hannah Fry awarded 2018 Zeeman Medal |
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Posted August 5, 2018 |
Meta-study finds no intrinsic gender differences in childhood number skills |
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Posted August 2, 2018 |
UK's Royal Society announces 2018 science book prize shortlist |
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Posted August 1, 2018 |
2018 Fields medals awarded to Caucher Birkar, Alessio Figalli, Peter Scholze and Akshay Venkatesh |
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Posted July 31, 2018 |
2022 International Congress of Mathematicians to be held in St Petersburg |
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Posted July 19, 2018 |
Debate on validity of proof of ABC conjecture resurfaces |
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Posted July 15, 2018 |
USA tops medal table in 2018 International Mathematical Olympiad |
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Posted July 9, 2018 |
Online mathematics community mourns loss of Cut-The-Knot founder |
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Posted June 26, 2018 |
Publication of proof of CFSG sees milestone report |
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Posted June 22, 2018 |
Oracle-based solvabity by quantum computers proved beyond classical computers |
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Posted June 15, 2018 |
Masaki Kashiwara awarded 2018 Kyoto prize |
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Posted June 9, 2018 |
Tributes to Shiela Claridge, Peter Giblin, Geoffrey Hall, Angela McLean, Jagdev Singh Virdee in 2018 Queen's Birthday Honours |
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Posted June 5, 2018 |
New open-access combinatorics journal launches |
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Posted May 15, 2018 |
PDE work wins Luis Caffarelli $1.2m Shaw prize |
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Posted May 9, 2018 |
New UK Royal Society fellows include Kevin Costello, Alexander Dawid, Peter Dayan, Nancy Reid, Adi Shamir, Geordie Williamson, Daniel Wise |
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Posted May 4, 2018 |
Machine learning community reacts against new closed access journal |
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Posted May 2, 2018 |
In memoriam Manfredo P. Do Carmo (1928–2018) |
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Posted May 1, 2018 |
Turing-Welchman Bombe crowdfunded replica successfully installed at Bletchley |
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Posted April 22, 2018 |
French ICM2022 bid spawns new popular mathematics website |
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Posted April 17, 2018 |
Russian Federation wins 7th European Girls Mathematical Olympiad |
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Posted April 9, 2018 |
Harvard hires 2nd-Ever Female Tenured Math Prof |
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Posted March 29, 2018 |
Mathematical Intelligencer celebrates 40 years (with open access to vol. 40, issue 1) |
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Posted March 21, 2018 |
Le Monde and L'Obs launch popular series "Génies des mathématiques" |
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Posted March 20, 2018 |
2018 Abel Prize awarded to Robert Langlands |
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Posted March 17, 2018 |
UK National Museum of Computing crowdfunds hosting for replica Turing Bombe |
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Posted March 14, 2018 |
In memoriam Stephen Hawking (1942–2018) |
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Posted March 13, 2018 |
In memoriam Michel Raynaud (1938–2018) |
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Posted March 8, 2018 |
Australia creates Women in Science Ambassador post |
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Posted March 4, 2018 |
Tunisian Journal of Mathematics launches |
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Posted March 2, 2018 |
In memoriam Andrew Ranicki (1948–2018) |
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Posted March 1, 2018 |
UK newspaper The Sun derided for "disgraceful mathematical illiteracy" |
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Posted February 20, 2018 |
Cédric Villani proposes remedies for 'catastrophic' French mathematics education |
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Posted February 14, 2018 |
2018 Wolf Prizes awarded for quantum information theory and algebraic geometry |
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Posted February 7, 2018 |
In memoriam Alan Baker (1939–2018) |
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Posted February 4, 2018 |
In memoriam Joseph Polchinski (1954–2018) |
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Posted January 9, 2018 |
New largest prime discovered |
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Posted December 15, 2017 |
Sylvie Benzoni appointed new head of Institut Henri Poincaré |
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Posted December 13, 2017 |
UK appoints statistician as Chief Scientific Adviser |
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Posted December 11, 2017 |
Vi Hart and Matt Parker share prestigious AMS mathematics communication prize |
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Posted December 4, 2017 |
Algebraic geometers share $3m Breakthrough prize for mathematics |
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Posted October 27, 2017 |
In memoriam Charles Sims (1938–2017) |
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Posted October 23, 2017 |
Stephen Hawking's 1966 PhD dissertation made open-access |
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Posted October 6, 2017 |
Frances Kirwan first woman appointed to Oxford 'historic' chair in mathematics |
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Posted October 3, 2017 |
In memoriam Vladimir Voevodsky (1966–2017) |
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Posted September 4, 2017 |
Crowdfunding achieved to complete Oliver Byrne's Euclid |
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Posted August 20, 2017 |
UK funding agency abandons flagship mathematics programme |
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Posted August 14, 2017 |
Mary Somerville to feature on Royal Bank of Scotland banknote |
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Posted August 7, 2017 |
Deborah Ashby to be next president of the Royal Statistical Society |
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Posted August 4, 2017 |
In memoriam Landon Clay (1926–2017) |
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Posted July 28, 2017 |
In memoriam Peter Wegner (1932–2017) |
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Posted July 22, 2017 |
IMO 2017: top spot achieved by South Korea |
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Posted July 20, 2017 |
Smith Report envisages compulsory mathematics to age 18 in UK |
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Posted July 15, 2017 |
In memoriam Maryam Mirzakhani (1977–2017) |
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Posted July 13, 2017 |
58th International Mathematical Olympiad launches in Rio de Janeiro |
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Posted July 10, 2017 |
In memoriam Marina Ratner (1938–2017) |
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Posted July 5, 2017 |
2017 LMS Prize Winners announced |
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Posted June 22, 2017 |
In memoriam Jean-Pierre Kahane (1926–2017) |
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Posted June 21, 2017 |
EU calls for open access scientific publishing by 2020 |
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Posted June 19, 2017 |
Et voilà! Fields medal winner enters French parliament |
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Posted June 18, 2017 |
Probability theorist Alison Etheridge awarded OBE in UK 2017 Birthday Honours |
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Posted June 12, 2017 |
Fields medal winner looks set to enter French parliament |
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Posted June 7, 2017 |
$1000 Conway puzzle resolved in the negative |
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Posted May 25, 2017 |
Andrew Wiles wins Royal Society's premier science prize |
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Posted May 24, 2017 |
In Memoriam Jean E. Sammet (1928–2017) |
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Posted May 23, 2017 |
János Kollár and
Claire Voisin share 2017 Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences |
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Posted May 12, 2017 |
Cédric Villani to stand in French legislative elections |
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Posted May 6, 2017 |
Alexandre Grothendieck's notes released for internet publication |
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Posted May 5, 2017 |
Congratulations elected FRS 2017: Whitfield Diffie, Mark Gross, Subhash Khot, Lawrence Paulson, Gordon Slade, Andrew Woods, Nigel Shadbolt |
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Posted May 4, 2017 |
In memoriam Neville Temperley (1915–2017) |
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Posted May 1, 2017 |
Cédric Villani makes appeal to French voting public |
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Posted April 21, 2017 |
Maryam Mirzahkani elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences |
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Posted March 21, 2017 |
Yves Meyer wins 2017 Abel Prize |
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Posted February 26, 2017 |
Now free at Project Euclid: back catalogues of Acta Mathematica and Arkiv för Mathematik |
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Posted February 22, 2017 |
In memoriam Kenneth Arrow (1921–2017) |
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Posted February 11, 2017 |
Yale to rename Calhoun College in honour of Grace Murray Hopper |
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Posted February 7, 2017 |
In memoriam Hans Rosling (1948–2017) |
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Posted February 1, 2017 |
US President's EO on immigration condemned by American Mathematical Society, the European Mathematical Society, and leading mathematicians everywhere |
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Posted January 20, 2017 |
Another major mathematics journal switches to arXiv overlay |
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Posted January 10, 2017 |
Graph isomorphism: quasipolynomial claim restored |
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Posted January 5, 2017 |
Downgraded graph isomorphism algorithm "still a breakthrough" |
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Posted January 3, 2017 |
In memoriam Anne Penfold Street (1932–2016) |
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Posted December 16, 2016 |
1st edition Principia Mathematica sells for record $3.7 million |
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Posted December 14, 2016 |
Art Benjamin wins 2017 JPBM Communications Award for Public Outreach |
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Posted December 12, 2016 |
New York's Museum of Mathematics celebrates its 4-year anniversary |
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Posted December 7, 2016 |
Mathematics gallery opens at London's Science Museum |
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Posted December 6, 2016 |
Mochizuki's ABC proof likely to see publication "in the next year or so" |
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Posted December 5, 2016 |
Jean Bourgain receives 2017 Breakthrough Prize for math |
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Posted November 26, 2016 |
German funding agency approves 12-year open source computer algebra project |
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Posted November 24, 2016 |
Second proof found for century-old design theory conjecture |
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Posted October 12, 2016 |
LMS Women in Mathematics committee awarded 2016 Royal Society Athena Prize |
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Posted October 4, 2016 |
Topology stars in 2016 Nobel Physics awards |
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Posted October 2, 2016 |
Happy 100th birthday Richard K. Guy! |
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Posted September 29, 2016 |
Rob Eastaway awarded 2016 Christopher Zeeman medal |
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Posted September 22, 2016 |
Claire Voisin awarded France's highest scientific honour |
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Posted September 19, 2016 |
Heidelberg Laureate Forum live-streaming talks by Wiles, Atiyah, Faltings and more |
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Posted September 10, 2016 |
In memoriam Joseph Keller (1923–2016) |
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Posted September 7, 2016 |
13–18 year olds invited to apply for $250K Juniour Breakthrough Prize in mathematics & science |
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Posted September 5, 2016 |
In memoriam Jean-Christophe Yoccoz (1957–2016) |
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Posted August 31, 2016 |
Free-access arXiv overlay journal concept extends to quantum physics |
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Posted August 18, 2016 |
Northern Ireland: mathematics now "most popular subject" at A level |
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Posted August 4, 2016 |
In memoriam Jonathan Borwein (1951–2016) |
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Posted July 29, 2016 |
Mochizuki's ABC proof: consensus may have to wait until "at least three years from now" |
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Posted July 25, 2016 |
European Mathematical Society protests Turkey's treatment of academics |
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Posted July 18, 2016 |
Latest workshop on IUT proof of ABC conjecture launches in Japan |
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Posted July 17, 2016 |
Slovenia to host 2020 European Congress of Mathematics |
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Posted July 5, 2016 |
2016 Dirac Prize awarded to Sandu Popescu |
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Posted July 3, 2016 |
arXiv online math & physics repository contemplates major revamp |
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Posted July 2, 2016 |
Quanta magazine posts Fields 2018 predictions |
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Posted June 28, 2016 |
UK brewery brings back 6.28% strength beer to mark Tau Day 2016 |
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Posted June 22, 2016 |
Australia launches its first international mathematics research institute |
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Posted June 2, 2016 |
New UK Science Museum maths gallery "important part" of late Zaha Hadid's legacy |
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Posted May 31, 2016 |
New computer-assisted proof as big as US Library of Congress |
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Posted May 19, 2016 |
Another Erdős conjecture proved! |
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Posted May 4, 2016 |
Happy Ending Problem solved asymptotically |
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Posted April 21, 2016 |
5th European Girls Mathematical Olympiad, Russia wins |
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Posted April 19, 2016 |
Forty-year old graph theory conjecture asserted false |
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Posted April 4, 2016 |
Leading maths blog announces award for popular mathematics |
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Posted March 25, 2016 |
Sphere packing density solved in dimensions 8 and 24 |
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Posted March 19, 2016 |
In memoriam Hilary Putnam (1926–2016) |
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Posted March 15, 2016 |
2016 Abel Prize awarded to Andrew Wiles |
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Posted March 3, 2016 |
2015 Turing Prize awarded to co-inventors of asymmetric cryptography |
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Posted March 2, 2016 |
New-style open access mathematics journal launched |
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Posted February 17, 2016 |
In memoriam Christopher Zeeman (1925–2016) |
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Posted February 9, 2016 |
Motion to prevent closure of pioneering mathematics journal fails |
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Posted January 26, 2016 |
In memoriam Marvin Minsky (1927–2016) |
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Posted January 19, 2016 |
New prime discovery adds 5 million digits to record |
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Posted January 18, 2016 |
In memoriam Peter Gavin Hall (1951–2016) |
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Posted January 10, 2016 |
Mathematical physics community considers proposed black hole information loss solution |
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Posted January 1, 2016 |
Congratulations to those honoured for mathematics in the UK New Year's Honours |
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Posted December 23, 2015 |
Congratulations Michael Artin and Simon A. Levin, National Medal of Science winners |
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Posted December 21, 2015 |
India celebrates National Mathematics Day on Ramanujan's birth date |
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Posted December 18, 2015 |
Babai's breakthrough graph isomorphism paper posted online |
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Posted December 17, 2015 |
Funding agreed for new Museum of Mathematics in Paris |
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Posted December 15, 2015 |
Mochizuki and ABC update: IUT may be "just hopelessly impenetrable" |
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Posted November 25, 2015 |
Katherine G. Johnson awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom |
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Posted November 25, 2015 |
Luis Alvarez-Gaumé to be the next Director of the Simons Center |
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Posted November 20, 2015 |
Crytocurrency concept may redefine 'ownership' |
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Posted November 17, 2015 |
Alicia Dickenstein wins 2015 TWAS Prize in Mathematics |
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Posted November 17, 2015 |
Media over-react to Riemann rumour |
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Posted November 11, 2015 |
In memoriam Klaus Roth (1925–2015) |
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Posted November 9, 2015 |
Ian Agol wins Breakthrough prize in mathematics |
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Posted November 6, 2015 |
Breakthrough algorithm for graph isomorphism announced |
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Posted October 29, 2015 |
In memoriam S. Barry Cooper (1943–2015) |
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Posted October 27, 2015 |
Paul Glaister to chair UK Joint Mathematical Council |
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Posted October 26, 2015 |
In memoriam Lisa Jardine (1944–2015) |
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Posted October 15, 2015 |
Ramanujan 'discovered' smooth minimal surfaces of algebraic geometry |
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Posted October 12, 2015 |
Storm brews at Berkeley Math over alleged dismissal |
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Posted October 10, 2015 |
Swiss prodigy reads mathematics at Perpignan aged 12 |
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Posted September 28, 2015 |
Strong Neuwirth Conjecture of knot theory disproved |
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Posted September 20, 2015 |
Erdős Discrepancy Conjecture resolved |
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Posted August 28, 2015 |
Monkeys show ability to compare fractional quantities |
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Posted August 26, 2015 |
In memoriam William B. Bonnor (1920–2015) |
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Posted August 22, 2015 |
In memoriam John Henry Holland (1929–2015) |
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Posted August 20, 2015 |
UK's Alan Turing Institute is 'open for business' |
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Posted August 19, 2015 |
Microsoft's Jennifer Chayes wins SIAM's highest award |
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Posted August 13, 2015 |
1 in 3 UK A level students studies mathematics: 12th consecutive annual rise |
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Posted August 12, 2015 |
After a 30-year wait: a new pentagonal tiling of the plane |
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Posted August 4, 2015 |
Royal Society announces shortlist for Winton Prize for Science Books |
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Posted August 1, 2015 |
Elwyn Berlekamp, John Conway and Richard Guy honoured by New York's Museum of Mathematics |
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Posted August 1, 2015 |
Hirsch Conjecture counterexample wins Francisco Santos 2015 Fulkerson Prize |
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Posted July 20, 2015 |
MacTutor History of Mathematics creators honoured by LMS |
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Posted July 14, 2015 |
National Portrait Gallery unveils new portrait of Andrew Wiles |
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Posted June 25, 2015 |
Faltings and Iwaniec share 2015 Shaw prize |
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Posted June 17, 2015 |
Demise of Hagoromo blackboard chalk saddens mathematicians |
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Posted June 15, 2015 |
Étienne Ghys wins inaugural Clay Award for Dissemination of Mathematical Knowledge |
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Posted June 12, 2015 |
Congratulations Chris Budd OBE! |
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Posted June 12, 2015 |
BBC Trust announces review of statistics reporting at BBC |
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Posted June 4, 2015 |
Howard Covington to head new Alan Turing Institute |
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Posted May 28, 2015 |
Algorithm giants honoured by Gödel and Knuth prizes |
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Posted May 27, 2015 |
Quantum key distribution gets three orders of magnitude speed up |
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Posted May 24, 2015 |
In memoriam John Forbes Nash Jr. (1928–2015) |
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Posted May 22, 2015 |
Burr and Erdős conjecture proved |
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Posted May 16, 2015 |
Mathematics and Computer Science degrees in top 10 for UK employability |
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Posted May 14, 2015 |
Mathematicians lobby Nurse Review of UK research councils |
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Posted May 5, 2015 |
David Spiegelhalter nominated next RSS president |
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Posted May 1, 2015 |
Congratulations Cocks, Etheridge, Ghahramani, Maini, Marklof, Pila, Thomas and all the new FRSs! |
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Posted April 25, 2015 |
75th Annual Putnam Competition results announced |
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Posted April 20, 2015 |
Fourth gold in a row for Daniella Wang at EGMO 2015 |
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Posted April 18, 2015 |
'Mathematician' rated 3rd best job by major jobseek website |
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Posted April 12, 2015 |
Turing manuscript goes to auction in New York |
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Posted March 25, 2015 |
2015 Abel Prize awarded to John Forbes Nash and Louis Nirenberg |
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Posted March 23, 2015 |
Fermi-Pasta-Ulam problem gets mathematical solution |
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Posted March 19, 2015 |
LMS launches Sir Christopher Zeeman Archive |
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Posted March 13, 2015 |
OEIS celebrates 50th with $1000 prize |
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Posted March 11, 2015 |
Ian Stewart, Steven Strogatz win 2015 Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing About Science |
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Posted March 7, 2015 |
Congratulations Kavita Bala, new editor-in-chief, AMC TOG |
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Posted March 4, 2015 |
Practical quantum computer a step closer |
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Posted March 1, 2015 |
In memoriam Georg Kreisel (1923–2015) |
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Posted February 25, 2015 |
International Mathematical Olympiad Foundation gets 'public face' website |
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Posted February 23, 2015 |
Statisical algorithm >85% accurate predicting 2015 Oscars |
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Posted February 18, 2015 |
Mochizuki and the ABC conjecture: developments |
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Posted February 13, 2015 |
Ivory Coast: government pledges Société Mathématiques de Côte d’Ivoire ≈€400K p.a. |
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Posted February 8, 2015 |
The Topological Tverberg Conjecture is false |
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Posted February 5, 2015 |
Mathematicians help crack virus RNA packing code |
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Posted February 3, 2015 |
2015 Wolf Prize awarded to James Arthur |
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Posted January 31, 2015 |
Scientists create Möbius strip out of light |
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Posted January 27, 2015 |
Yitang Zhang and twin primes star in new film |
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Posted January 23, 2015 |
Scientists slow speed of light |
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Posted January 19, 2015 |
Mathematician wins technical Oscar |
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Posted January 13, 2015 |
Triangulation conjecture disproved |
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Posted January 8, 2015 |
Two-player limit version of poker solved by game theorists |
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Posted January 4, 2015 |
Congratulations Margaret Louise Brown OBE and Gwyneth Mary Stallard OBE! |
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Posted January 2, 2015 |
In memoriam Ivor Grattan-Guinness (1941–2014) |
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Posted December 9, 2014 |
In memoriam Sir Arthur Bonsall (1917–2014) |
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Posted December 5, 2014 |
New Alan Turing Institute for Data Science confirmed by chancellor |
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Posted December 4, 2014 |
2015 JMM prizes announced by MAA |
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Posted December 3, 2014 |
Quantum computer factorises 56153 |
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Posted December 2, 2014 |
MegaMenger: Level 4 Menger sponge (90-ε)% complete |
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Posted November 25, 2014 |
Belfast street to be named after Bell's Theorem |
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Posted November 24, 2014 |
Happy 2.32.7-th birthday, American Mathematical Society! |
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Posted November 14, 2014 |
In memoriam Alexandre Grothendieck (1928–2014) |
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Posted November 4, 2014 |
Fabiola Gianotti to be next Director General of CERN |
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Posted October 25, 2014 |
In memoriam Kathryn Chaloner (1954–2014) |
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Posted October 17, 2014 |
Evidence mounts for NSA sabotage of encryption software |
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Posted October 13, 2014 |
Jean Tirole wins Economics Nobel for mathematical models of market behaviours |
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Posted October 8, 2014 |
Mathematics & CS count cost of Microsoft Lab closure |
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Posted October 4, 2014 |
David Blackwell receives posthumous National Medal of Science |
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Posted October 3, 2014 |
Quantum data compression achieved |
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Posted September 28, 2014 |
In memoriam Jacqueline A. Stedall (1950–2014) |
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Posted September 27, 2014 |
Black holes 'disproved' by controversial mathematical model |
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Posted September 25, 2014 |
In memoriam Alexey Chervonenkis (1938–2014) |
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Posted September 23, 2014 |
Large increase in quantum state teleportation record |
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Posted September 22, 2014 |
Mathematical model casts doubt on sharks' mathematical powers |
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Posted September 17, 2014 |
MacArthur Foundation fellowship for Yitang Zhang |
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Posted September 15, 2014 |
Richard Lipton awarded 2014 Knuth Prize |
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Posted September 13, 2014 |
In memoriam Kathleen Ollerenshaw (1912–2014) |
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Posted September 12, 2014 |
London's Science Museum receives £5m donation for Mathematics |
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Posted September 11, 2014 |
Memorial to Bill Tutte unveiled in Newmarket |
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Posted September 2, 2014 |
Chimps outperform humans in game theory experiment |
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Posted August 27, 2014 |
Simultaneous breakthroughs resolve large prime gaps conjecture |
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Posted August 24, 2014 |
Mathematician Kate Smith-Miles wins 2014 Georgina Sweet award |
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Posted August 23, 2014 |
In memoriam Bryce McLeod, 1929–2014 |
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Posted August 18, 2014 |
Mathematics becomes most popular UK A Level subject |
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Posted August 15, 2014 |
Flyspeck project for formal proof of Kepler's Conjecture completed |
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Posted August 14, 2014 |
Subhash Khot: 2014 Nevanlinna prize winner |
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Posted August 13, 2014 |
Artur Avila,
Manjul Bhargava, Martin Hairer,
Maryam Mirzakhani: 2014 Fields medallists |
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Posted August 7, 2014 |
du Sautoy wins 2014 Christopher Zeeman Medal for Promotion of Mathematics to the Public |
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Posted August 6, 2014 |
Rosetta rendezvouz: a great day for all mathematical sciences |
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Posted August 1, 2014 |
Physical support for Turing's theory of morphogenesis |
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Posted July 29, 2014 |
In memoriam David Broomhead (1950–2014) |
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Posted July 25, 2014 |
Grigory Perelman reportedly relocates to Sweden |
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Posted July 23, 2014 |
Institute of Measurement awards Thomson Gold medal to Marcus du Sautoy |
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Posted July 21, 2014 |
Drama about Alan Turing to open 2014 London Film Festival |
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Posted July 16, 2014 |
RSS announces 2014 Award for Excellence in the Pharmaceutical Industry |
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Posted July 13, 2014 |
IMO2014: China top for 2nd year running |
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Posted July 11, 2014 |
IMO2014: >3000 candidates' submissions now being marked |
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Posted July 8, 2014 |
Geoff Smith elected to lead International Mathematical Olympiad |
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Posted July 1, 2014 |
Huge success of Ramanujan trailer, viewed over 130000 times on youtube |
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Posted June 27, 2014 |
Cédric Villani announces Museum of Mathematics for Paris by 2018 |
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Posted June 23, 2014 |
Five winners of inaugural Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics announced |
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Posted June 21, 2014 |
Fermat's home town unviels new statue |
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Posted June 18, 2014 |
Michael J. Hopkins awarded 2014 Nemmers Prize |
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Posted June 8, 2014 |
Turing Test 'passed' at level of 13-year-old |
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Posted June 5, 2014 |
St Andrews best for Mathematics according to Guardian league table |
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Posted May 30, 2014 |
Consistent 3m teleportation of quantum state achieved |
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Posted May 22, 2014 |
Congratulations Kate Juschenko: awarded AMS Centennial Fellowship 2014-2015 |
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Posted May 16, 2014 |
London's Science Museum plans new world-leading mathematics gallery |
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Posted May 11, 2014 |
Yitang Zhang wins Ostrowski Prize for 2013 |
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Posted May 9, 2014 |
Matt Haig's The Humans set to become major film |
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Posted May 2, 2014 |
Congratulations Tom Bridgeland, Geoffrey Grimmett, Martin Hairer and Vladimir Markovic, elected Royal Society fellows |
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Posted May 1, 2014 |
HoTT wins $7.5m dollar grant from US Department of Defense |
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Posted April 29, 2014 |
Mathematics fills top job spots in Wall St Journal article |
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Posted April 26, 2014 |
Monkeys able to acquire basic numeracy skills |
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Posted April 23, 2014 |
Congratulations Ukraine: top in 3rd European Girls' Math Olympiad! |
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Posted April 21, 2014 |
In memoriam Sandy Green (1926–2014) |
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Posted April 8, 2014 |
2014 ACM Turing award bestowed on Leslie Lamport |
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Posted March 27, 2014 |
2014 Abel Prize award bestowed on Yakov G. Sinai |
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Posted March 20, 2014 |
UK plans new Alan Turing Institute |
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Posted March 12, 2014 |
Happy 25th Birthday WWW! |
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Posted March 2, 2014 |
Navier–Stokes in news again thanks to Terry Tao |
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Posted February 22, 2014 |
New class of convex polyhedra found |
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Posted February 19, 2014 |
Computer establishes case C = 2 of Erdős Discrepancy Conjecture |
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Posted February 14, 2014 |
Mathematician wins top prize for public engagement with science prize |
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Posted February 3, 2014 |
'Amazing' breakthrough in combinatorics announced |
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Posted February 3, 2014 |
Peter Sarnak awarded 2014 Wolf Prize in Mathematics |
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Posted January 31, 2014 |
In memoriam Heini Halberstam |
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Posted January 25, 2014 |
Proposed solution to Clay Millenium problem comes under scrutiny |
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Posted January 9, 2014 |
2014 Joint Mathematics Meeting draws almost 6500! |
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Posted January 9, 2014 |
In memoriam design theorist and musician Donald Preece |
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Posted December 31, 2013 |
Congratulations Celia Hoyles and Frances Kirwan, 2014 New Year Honours recipients! |
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Posted December 24, 2013 |
Alan Turing granted royal pardon |
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Posted December 18, 2013 |
Mathematical ability not inate, Norwegian study suggests |
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Posted December 1, 2013 |
3-sphere triangulations counted |
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Posted November 25, 2013 |
Congratulations Sean Carroll, winner 2013 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books |
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Posted November 23, 2013 |
Girls at UK single-sex schools 75% more likely to take maths |
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Posted November 21, 2013 |
Dramatic new reduction in twin primes gap |
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Posted November 20, 2013 |
Fred Sanger dies aged 95 |
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Posted November 10, 2013 |
2014 Class of the Fellows of the AMS announced |
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Posted November 5, 2013 |
Gowers launches Polymath no. 9 |
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Posted October 29, 2013 |
Mathematician to be next head of European Research Council |
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Posted October 23, 2013 |
Is mathematics all that remains of SUSY? |
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Posted October 8, 2013 |
New John Baez blog for AMS celebrates mathematics through images |
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Posted October 8, 2013 |
Congratulations Peter Higgs and Francois Englert! Nobel Physics laureates 2013 |
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Posted October 5, 2013 |
Oxford's Mathematics Institute celebrates its new building |
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Posted September 21, 2013 |
Stable marriage pioneers honoured by Golden Goose award |
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Posted August 6, 2013 |
Kadison-Singer problem solved |
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Posted August 1, 2013 |
Functional encryption breakthrough creates non-reverse engineerable software code; practitioners sceptical... |
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Posted July 29, 2013 |
Mathemagician celebrated in New York Times |
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Posted July 26, 2013 |
Long-distance quantum cryptography gets closer |
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Posted July 14, 2013 |
Deep connection announced between quantum non-locality and game theory |
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Posted July 4, 2013 |
Congratulations Carnival of Mathematics: issue no. 100 out now!
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Posted June 30, 2013 |
Zhang twin primes gap down to ∼12000
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Posted June 26, 2013 |
Zhang twin primes gap reduced to 6× 104
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Posted June 15, 2013 |
Beal Conjecture joins $1million list
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Posted June 06, 2013 |
Carnival of Mathematics no. 99 now on show!
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Posted June 03, 2013: |
Falsity of Borsuk’s conjecture lowered to dimension 65
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Posted May 16, 2013: |
Two major advances in number theory announced
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Posted May 14, 2013: |
Graph theorist Kenneth I. Appel (1932–2013)
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Posted May 8, 2013: |
Carnival of Mathematics no. 98 now on show!
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Posted April 30, 2013: |
Danielle Wang tops EGMO scoreboard for 2nd year
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Posted April 18, 2013: |
Carnival of Mathematics no. 97 now on show!
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Posted April 5, 2013: |
Pierre Deligne named 2013 Abel laureate
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Posted March 30, 2013: |
Topologist Mary Ellen Rudin (1924– 2013)
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Posted February 28, 2013: |
House of Lords launch for LMS " Advancing Women in Mathematics" report
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Posted February 12, 2013: |
UK study "first of its kind to quantify the economic value of mathematics research"
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Posted February 10, 2013: |
48th known Mersenne prime found
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Posted February 6, 2013: |
Carnival of Mathematics no. 95 now on show!
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Posted February 3, 2013: |
Fun 2 ,3, 4! A new exhibition at Mid-Hudson Children's Museum, Poughkeepsie NY
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Posted January 24, 2013: |
New mathematical model makes gravitinos responsible for dark matter
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Posted January 19, 2013: |
2013 Mathematical Art Exhibition Awards announced at JMM
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Posted January 10, 2013: |
Carnival of Mathematics no. 94 now on show!
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Posted December 29, 2012: |
Congratulations to mathematicians Francis Kelly, Terence Heard and Jenny Ramsden recognised in the 2013 New Year Honours List
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Posted December 16, 2012: |
Museum of Mathematics opens its doors in NYC
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Posted December 11, 2012: |
Mathematics of Planet Earth 2013 launches
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Posted December 6, 2012: |
Carnival of Mathematics no. 93 now on show!
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Posted December 2, 2012: |
James Gleick's The Information wins Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books
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Posted November 29, 2012: |
NRich offers on-line primary and secondary level math-puzzle advent calendars
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Posted November 24, 2012: |
WWII carrier pigeon poses puzzle for modern codebreakers
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Posted November 20, 2012: |
Fluid dynamics explains Emperor penguin huddling
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Posted November 9, 2012: |
New inequalities suggest quantum entanglement effect is genuinely instantaneous
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Posted November 9, 2012: |
Euclid lends his support to Battersea Dogs & Cats Home
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Posted November 7, 2012: |
Carnival of Mathematics no. 92 now on show!
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Posted November 5, 2012: |
AMS announces inaugural class of fellows
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Posted October 25, 2012: |
2012 Nobel prize in Economics shared by Alvin E. Roth and Lloyd S. Shapley.
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Posted October 21, 2012: |
computer proof announced for Feit–Thomson Theorem.
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Posted October 13, 2012: |
Happy 100th birthday to Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw!
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Posted October 13, 2012: |
Carnival of Mathematics no. 91 now on show!
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Posted October 9, 2012: |
Congratulations to 2012 Nobel Physics laureates Serge Haroche and
David J. Wineland
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Posted October 7, 2012: |
Maria Chudnovskey receives 2012 MacArthur Fellowship
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Posted October 4, 2012: |
Congratulations to Peter Neumann and Arieh Iserles, 2012 David Crighton Award winners
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Posted October 1, 2012: |
Elsevier widens free online access to archived mathematical publications
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Posted September 27, 2012: |
Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books shortlist announced.
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Posted September 23, 2012: |
PolyMath Wiki establishes clearing house for abc conjecture proof
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Posted September 20, 2012: |
Charles Townes honoured at first Golden Goose Awards ceremony
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Posted September 09, 2012: |
Proof of abc conjecture mooted
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Posted September 03, 2012: |
Paralympic gold medalist Sophie Christiansen "likes to muse about algebraic number theory"
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Posted August 30, 2012: |
William Thurston, giant of topology, leaves.
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Posted August 25, 2012: |
Proposed rival to Gaussian elimination prompts lively blog debate
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Posted August 6, 2012: |
Carnival of Mathematics no. 89 now on show!
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Posted August 1, 2012: |
MAA's Mathfest runs 2–4 August
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Posted July 17, 2012: |
South Korea wins 53rd International Mathematical Olympiad with perfect 6 gold medal tally.
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Posted July 07, 2012: |
Carnival of Mathematics no. 88 now on show!
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Posted June 30, 2012: |
American Mathematical Monthly posts 1894–1922 issues free online at JSTOR.
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Posted June 24, 2012: |
Alan Turing's death: Jack Copeland declares ignorabimus.
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Posted June 16, 2012: |
Congratulations to Tim Gowers and Manju Tank cited for mathematics in the Queen's Birthday Honours List.
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Posted June 13, 2012: |
Carnival of Mathematics no. 87 out today!
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Posted May 8, 2012: |
Carnival of Mathematics no. 86 out today!
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Posted May 5, 2012: |
Tau gets world-record attempt: 1st 2000 digits to be recited by 12 year old
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Posted April 18, 2012: |
April is Mathematics Awareness Month
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Posted April 1, 2012: |
Endre Szemerédi awarded 2012 Abel prize
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Posted March 23, 2012: |
New math teaching award announced by Museum of Mathematics
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Posted March 16, 2012: |
Experiment fails to replicate faster-than-light neutrinos
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Posted March 13, 2012: |
π Day is also Einstein's birthday!
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Posted March 8, 2012: |
Verbal skills may give girls an advantage in arithmetic
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Posted March 4, 2012: |
Wednesday March 7 is World Mathematics Day!
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Posted February 24, 2012: |
Turing's morphogenesis gets empirical support
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Posted February 19, 2012: |
Mathematicians' Elsevier boycott gains momentum
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Posted February 3, 2012: |
5 prime numbers suffice, announces Terence Tao
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Posted January 28, 2012: |
Congratulations to Cameron Counts on its milestone 300th posting!
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Posted January 19, 2012: |
Herbert S. Wilf, pioneer in combinatorics and computational mathematics, dies at age 81
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Posted December 30, 2011: |
Happy 70th birthday Stephen Hawking!
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Posted December 30, 2011: |
Brun's constant a featured number for 2011 on BBC Radio 4's More or Less
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Posted December 27, 2011: |
Newton manuscripts digitised
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Posted December 20, 2011: |
new study finds "gender equity and other sociocultural factors are primary determinants of mathematics performance at all
levels for both boys and girls".
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Posted December 16, 2011: |
Google adds function plotting to its search engine.
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Posted October 27, 2011: |
Herbert Hauptman, mathematician and chemistry Nobel laureate dies at age 94.
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Posted October 20, 2011: |
Ireland celebrates Maths Week 15–22 October
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Posted October 06, 2011: |
Bayes' Theorem 'outlawed' by UK judge
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Posted October 01, 2011: |
Barbara Keyfitz named 2012 Noether Lecturer
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Posted September 22, 2011: |
Top UK mathematicians petition PM against EPSRC 'micromanagement'
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Posted September 19, 2011: |
African Institute for Mathematical Sciences opens AIMS-Sénégal
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Posted September 13, 2011: |
3rd annual Maths Prize for Girls will be hosted by MIT for Advantage Testing Foundation on September 17th
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Posted September 5, 2011: |
250th Anniversary of Thomas Bayes' death celebrated at Edinburgh University
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Posted August 26, 2011: |
Blue Waters supercomputing project in danger of collapse.
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Posted July 31, 2011: |
Writer Alex Bellos invites you to join his `what's your favourite number?' experiment!
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Posted July 27, 2011: |
4th gold medal makes Lisa Sauermann IMO's most sucessful ever contestant.
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Posted July 21, 2011: |
Mathematician Nuno Crato named Minister of Education for Portugal.
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Posted July 10, 2011: |
Princeton team tile 3-space with octahedra and tetrahedra.
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Posted July 6, 2011: |
Future of Mathematics Study invites public input.
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Posted June 26, 2011: |
Mathematics Genealogy Project records now exceed 150000 in number.
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Posted June 11, 2011: |
Congratulations to atmosphere modeller Huw C. Davies, awarded OBE in Queen's Birthday Honours list.
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Posted June 6, 2011: |
Michael Aschbacher Awarded 2011 Schock Prize in Mathematics.
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Posted May 30, 2011: |
Alan Turing's classic Halting Problem paper celebrates its 75th birthday.
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Posted May 25, 2011: |
Maths graduate Nathan Cleverly installed as WBO boxing champion.
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Posted May 14, 2011: |
Today we celebrate the life of Antonia J. Jones (1943–2010).
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Posted May 12, 2011: |
Happy 2nd birthday Cameron Counts! a particularly beguiling blog.
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Posted May 2, 2011: |
Ravi Kannan wins 2011 Knuth prize for his work in computational complexity and algorithm design.
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Posted April 21, 2011: |
American Academy of Arts and Sciences elects woman mathematician: Marsha Berger one of 8 new mathematician members.
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Posted April 06, 2011: |
Marcus du Sautoy calls for maths input for BBC LabUK. Got any ideas?
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Posted March 24, 2011: |
John Milnor awarded 2011 Abel Prize ‘for pioneering discoveries in topology, geometry and algebra’.
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Posted February 19, 2011: |
Scott Chapman named as next editor-in-chief of world's most widely read mathematics journal.
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Posted January 22, 2011: |
Algebraic formula for partition numbers discovered, by Ken Ono and colleagues .
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Posted January 15, 2011: |
Congratulations to Sherry Gong of Harvard University, winner of the Twenty-First Annual Alice T. Schafer Prize !
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Posted December 31, 2010: |
Congratulations to statistician Adrian Smith knighted in the New Year's honours list!
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Posted December 30, 2010: |
London Mathematical Society launches Phase 1.1 of new website
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Posted December 17, 2010: |
The Best Writing on Mathematics 2010 published by Princeton University Press, edited by Mircea Pitici
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Posted December 5, 2010: |
Maurice Wilkes, father figure of British computing, dies at 97.
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Posted December 2, 2010: | 'CERN for industrial mathematics' urged by European Science Foundation.
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Posted November 26, 2010: |
'sensational' solution to Erdős's 1946 Distinct Distances Problem presented by Larry Guth and Nets Hawk Katz.
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Posted November 19, 2010: |
Mathematician David Mumford received the National Medal of Science from President Obama this week in a White House ceremony.
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Posted November 15, 2010: |
Bletchley Park codebreaker Peter Hilton dies at the age of 87.
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Posted November 11, 2010: |
Complexity theorists hail breakthrough result in circuit complexity by Ryan Williams of IBM's Almedan Research Center.
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Posted November 3, 2010: |
Judith Grabiner scores record fourth Ford Award from the Mathematical Association of America
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Posted October 26, 2010: |
Iconic scientist Benoît Mandelbrot dies aged 85, acknowledged as "largely responsible for the present interest in fractal geometry"
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Posted October 20, 2010: |
20.10.2010 is United Nations' first World Statistics Day, coinciding with the launch by the Royal Staticial Society of its getstats campaign.
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Posted October 19, 2010: |
Over 60 parties now arranged for the worldwide Martin Gardner celebration this Thursday 21st!
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Posted October 14, 2010: |
We learn with regret of the death of Alf van der Poorten, notable number theorist and past president of the Australian Mathematical Society
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Posted October 12, 2010: |
Thursday 21 October will mark a world-wide celebration of Martin Gardner on what would have been his 96th birthday.
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Posted October 7, 2010: |
50 nanometre Möbius strip created using 'DNA' origami by researchers at Arizona State University.
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Posted September 24, 2010: |
Winners of 2011 ICIAM prizes in applied mathematics announced (to be presented in Vancouver next July).
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Posted September 20, 2010: |
Mathematics of string theory gives testable predictionabout quantum entanglement.
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Posted September 16, 2010: |
New algorithm for finding Hamilton cycles beats 40-year-old record.
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Posted September 9, 2010: |
Proof of non-relativistic chaos in early universe announced by Katrin Gelfert and Adilson E. Motter.
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Posted September 2, 2010: |
Royal Society Prize for Science Books 2010 shortlist announced, including Why Does E=mc2? by Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw
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Posted August 30, 2010: |
Every starting position for Rubik's cube can be solved in 20 moves — it's official!
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Posted August 20, 2010: |
2010 Fields medallists announced: Elon Lindenstrauss,
Ngo Bau Chau,
Stan Smirnov and
Cedric Villani.
Read details.
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Posted August 18, 2010: |
A serious claim to a proof that P≠NP has earned the attention of some of the world's leading mathematicians. Follow the story from here.
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Posted August 13, 2010: |
The statistical world mourns the loss of John Nelder FRS famous for experimental design and for the Generalized Linear Model.
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Posted August 7, 2010: |
New record claimed for computed decimals of π: Five trillion places on a single desktop!
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Posted July 29, 2010: |
We learn with sorrow of the death of David Blackwell, the world-renowned statistician, at the age of 91. |
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