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A record of postings from the news section on theoremoftheday's home page. No effort will be made to check whether links from these postings remain valid.
Posted January 28, 2012: Congratulations to Cameron Counts on its milestone 300th posting!
Posted January 19, 2012: Herbert S. Wilf, pioneer in combinatorics and computational mathematics, dies at age 81
Posted December 30, 2011: Happy 70th birthday Stephen Hawking!
Posted December 30, 2011: Brun's constant a featured number for 2011 on BBC Radio 4's More or Less
Posted December 27, 2011: Newton manuscripts digitised
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".
Posted December 16, 2011: Google adds function plotting to its search engine.
Posted October 27, 2011: Herbert Hauptman, mathematician and chemistry Nobel laureate dies at age 94.
Posted October 20, 2011: Ireland celebrates Maths Week 15–22 October
Posted October 06, 2011: Bayes' Theorem 'outlawed' by UK judge
Posted October 01, 2011: Barbara Keyfitz named 2012 Noether Lecturer
Posted September 22, 2011: Top UK mathematicians petition PM against EPSRC 'micromanagement'
Posted September 19, 2011: African Institute for Mathematical Sciences opens AIMS-Sénégal
Posted September 13, 2011: 3rd annual Maths Prize for Girls will be hosted by MIT for Advantage Testing Foundation on September 17th
Posted September 5, 2011: 250th Anniversary of Thomas Bayes' death celebrated at Edinburgh University
Posted August 26, 2011: Blue Waters supercomputing project in danger of collapse.
Posted July 31, 2011: Writer Alex Bellos invites you to join his `what's your favourite number?' experiment!
Posted July 27, 2011: 4th gold medal makes Lisa Sauermann IMO's most sucessful ever contestant.
Posted July 21, 2011: Mathematician Nuno Crato named Minister of Education for Portugal.
Posted July 10, 2011: Princeton team tile 3-space with octahedra and tetrahedra.
Posted July 6, 2011: Future of Mathematics Study invites public input.
Posted June 26, 2011: Mathematics Genealogy Project records now exceed 150000 in number.
Posted June 11, 2011: Congratulations to atmosphere modeller Huw C. Davies, awarded OBE in Queen's Birthday Honours list.
Posted June 6, 2011: Michael Aschbacher Awarded 2011 Schock Prize in Mathematics.
Posted May 30, 2011: Alan Turing's classic Halting Problem paper celebrates its 75th birthday.
Posted May 25, 2011: Maths graduate Nathan Cleverly installed as WBO boxing champion.
Posted May 14, 2011: Today we celebrate the life of Antonia J. Jones (1943–2010).
Posted May 12, 2011: Happy 2nd birthday Cameron Counts! a particularly beguiling blog.
Posted May 2, 2011: Ravi Kannan wins 2011 Knuth prize for his work in computational complexity and algorithm design.
Posted April 21, 2011: American Academy of Arts and Sciences elects woman mathematician: Marsha Berger one of 8 new mathematician members.
Posted April 06, 2011: Marcus du Sautoy calls for maths input for BBC LabUK. Got any ideas?
Posted March 24, 2011: John Milnor awarded 2011 Abel Prize ‘for pioneering discoveries in topology, geometry and algebra’.
Posted February 19, 2011: Scott Chapman named as next editor-in-chief of world's most widely read mathematics journal.
Posted January 22, 2011: Algebraic formula for partition numbers discovered, by Ken Ono and colleagues .
Posted January 15, 2011: Congratulations to Sherry Gong of Harvard University, winner of the Twenty-First Annual Alice T. Schafer Prize !
Posted December 31, 2010: Congratulations to statistician Adrian Smith knighted in the New Year's honours list!
Posted December 30, 2010: London Mathematical Society launches Phase 1.1 of new website
Posted December 17, 2010:The Best Writing on Mathematics 2010 published by Princeton University Press, edited by Mircea Pitici
Posted December 5, 2010: Maurice Wilkes, father figure of British computing, dies at 97.
Posted December 2, 2010: 'CERN for industrial mathematics' urged by European Science Foundation.
Posted November 26, 2010: 'sensational' solution to Erdős's 1946 Distinct Distances Problem presented by Larry Guth and Nets Hawk Katz.
Posted November 19, 2010: Mathematician David Mumford received the National Medal of Science from President Obama this week in a White House ceremony.
Posted November 15, 2010: Bletchley Park codebreaker Peter Hilton dies at the age of 87.
Posted November 11, 2010: Complexity theorists hail breakthrough result in circuit complexity by Ryan Williams of IBM's Almedan Research Center.
Posted November 3, 2010: Judith Grabiner scores record fourth Ford Award from the Mathematical Association of America
Posted October 26, 2010: Iconic scientist Benoît Mandelbrot dies aged 85, acknowledged as "largely responsible for the present interest in fractal geometry"
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.
Posted October 19, 2010: Over 60 parties now arranged for the worldwide Martin Gardner celebration this Thursday 21st!
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
Posted October 12, 2010: Thursday 21 October will mark a world-wide celebration of Martin Gardner on what would have been his 96th birthday.
Posted October 7, 2010: 50 nanometre Möbius strip created using 'DNA' origami by researchers at Arizona State University.
Posted September 24, 2010: Winners of 2011 ICIAM prizes in applied mathematics announced (to be presented in Vancouver next July).
Posted September 20, 2010: Mathematics of string theory gives testable predictionabout quantum entanglement.
Posted September 16, 2010: New algorithm for finding Hamilton cycles beats 40-year-old record.
Posted September 9, 2010: Proof of non-relativistic chaos in early universe announced by Katrin Gelfert and Adilson E. Motter.
Posted September 2, 2010: Royal Society Prize for Science Books 2010 shortlist announced, including Why Does E=mc2? by Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw
Posted August 30, 2010: Every starting position for Rubic's cube can be solved in 20 moves — it's official!
Posted August 20, 2010: 2010 Fields medallists announced: Elon Lindenstrauss, Ngo Bau Chau, Stan Smirnov and Cedric Villani. Read details.
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.
Posted August 13, 2010: The statistical world mourns the loss of John Nelder FRS famous for experimental design and for the Generalized Linear Model.
Posted August 7, 2010: New record claimed for computed decimals of π: Five trillion places on a single desktop!
Posted July 29, 2010: We learn with sorrow of the death of David Blackwell, the world-renowned statistician, at the age of 91.
