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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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