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Applications are open for the next round of Inclusion and Diversity grants, providing financial backing to events championing EDI and grant programmes offering direct support to women and under-represented groups in mathematics.
Deadline: 16 December
➡️ lms.ac.uk/grants/lms-inclusi…
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Happy birthday to Robert P. Langlands! 🥳
He received the Abel Prize in 2018 “for his visionary program connecting representation theory to number theory.”
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Martin Hairer, one of the other members of AGMAI (the advisory group on mathematics and AI), has written a post on the Proofs and Prompts blog that will I hope clarify what our purpose is. The rest of the blog is highly recommended too.
proofsandprompts.com/2026/09…
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Why should we care whether humans still understand mathematics if AI can solve the problems for us? Fair question. But we can say this at least: Historically, understanding has been a route to predictive power — with enormous benefits for our lives.
nytimes.com/2026/09/22/scien…
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💐 Applications for the next round of Emmy Noether Fellowships are open!
Grants of up to £10,000 are open to mathematicians with current or recent caring responsibilities.
Deadline: Mon 30 November
Further details and to apply ➡️lms.ac.uk/grants/lms-emmy-no…
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While walking to work, I just had a chat with ChatGPT to make sure I understood what the claimed singular solution to Navier-Stokes would mean *physically.* Here's a tweet thread it generated for me. Hope you find it helpful. (I rewrote it a bit to clarify what's surprising.)
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Here's Tristan Buckmaster's statement. (You've probably seen bits of it quoted here today, but the whole thing is worth reading.)
cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/state…
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"I present the case for total opposition to the use of artificial intelligence in mathematics."
= a view you don't often hear on X. But I am looking forward to reading it carefully, and if you care about math and AI, I encourage you to do the same. arxiv.org/pdf/2608.02859
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Niels Henrik Abel (5 August 1802–6 April 1829) was born on this day, August 5th. Abel was one of history's most remarkable mathematicians. As the French mathematician Charles Hermite famously said:
"Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for five hundred years."1/5
ALT Drawing of Niels Henrik Abel made by Johan Gørbits during their time in Paris. Photo: University of Oslo / UiO / Institute of Mathematics
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Lothar Collatz was botd in 1910. He is most famous for the as yet unproven conjecture named after him: start from any positive integer n then construct a number sequence such that if the previous number is even, the next term must be one half the previous; if the previous term is odd, the next term is three times the previous + 1. The conjecture states that no matter what n we begin with, the sequence will always reach 1, it has been tested for all n up to approx 10^14. Example: start from 6, you get 6, 3, 10, 5, 16, 8, 4, 2, 1.
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I am beside myself with joy that The Art of Uncertainty is out in paperback today! Fits in any (largish) pocket, easy to read on the train or while jammed into a steaming underground carriage. The perfect present for the nerd in your life.
amazon.co.uk/Art-Uncertainty…
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Today is March 18. #OTD in 1690 mathematician Christian Goldback was born. Best known for the Goldbach Conjecture, which states that every even natural number greater than 2 is the sum of two prime numbers (which he wrote in a letter to Euler). Remains unproven.
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Be the first to know!! The announcement of this year's Abel Prize recipient will be on Thursday March 19, at 12.00 noon (CET). Watch it live on YouTube with Abel Friends around the world. youtube.com/@abelprize?si=Gh… #abelprize2026 #mathematics #abelprize
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Today is March 5. #OTD in 1827 polymath Pierre-Simon Laplace passed away. His work has been instrumental in fields of physics, astronomy, mathematics, engineering, statistics, and philosophy. He summarized and extended work of his predecessors in his 5-volume Mécanique céleste.
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I've been playing with some constructions but then went made a little animation - no huge revelation just joy in playing.
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Happy birthday to Dennis Sullivan, the 2022 Abel Prize Laureate! 🎉
He received the Abel Prize "for his groundbreaking contributions to topology in its broadest sense, and in particular its algebraic, geometric and dynamical aspects."
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Went to a maths communication workshop at the @uniofwarwick anchored by @SparksMaths, Katie Steckles & @plusmathsorg editors.
It remains a memorable experience for me. I can't wait to put all that knowledge to good use.
Organisers: @KatDoesMaths (CAMaCS) & @NewtonInstitute
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Today Jan 15. #OTD in 1850 mathematician Sofya Kovalevskaya was born. Made contributions to analysis, partial differential equations, mechanics. The 1st woman to earn a doctorate in math in the modern sense,1st woman in Europe in modern times appointed to full professor in math.
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What's the problem with AI images tools?
AI excels when fed perfect data, but falters in the real world.
Discover where deep learning hits its limits and why timeless math holds the key to robust, universal imaging.
@LeverhulmeTrust ; @plusmathsorg
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Today is December 11. #OTD in 1882 physicist Max Born was born. He received the @NobelPrize for Physics in 1954 for his probabilistic interpretation of quantum mechanics.
