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Mathematicians Protest Russia Hosting Major Conference

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As Ukrainian researchers have feared for their lives and careers after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, mathematicians have been grappling over what to do about a prominent mathematical conference that was set to be held in Saint Petersburg, Russia, in July. The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) is “the largest and most significant conference on pure and … Read more

Ukraine invasion: Mathematicians are angry that Russia may still host a major conference

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The International Congress of Mathematicians, held every four years, is a major event for the field, but mathematicians around the world are calling for it to be cancelled or postponed rather than going ahead in St Petersburg this July Physics 25 February 2022 By Alex Wilkins The Fields medal is the highest honour in mathematics … Read more

DeepMind cracks ‘knot’ conjecture that bedeviled mathematicians for decades

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The artificial intelligence (AI) program DeepMind has gotten closer to proving a math conjecture that’s bedeviled mathematicians for decades and revealed another new conjecture that may unravel how mathematicians understand knots.  The two pure math conjectures are the first-ever important advances in pure mathematics (or math not directly linked to any non-math application) generated by artificial intelligence, the researchers … Read more