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Fields Medals for 2010 announced
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By overconvergent
from the impressive prizes department
Posted Thu Aug 19, 2010 at 09:27:37 AM PDT
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The 2010 Fields Medals have been announced; they are for Elon Lindenstrauss of Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Ngô Bảo Châu of Université Paris-Sud in Orsay, France, Stanislav Smirnov of the University of Geneva, Switzerland, and Cedric Villani of the Henri Poincaré Institute in Paris.
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Gowers sheds light on the upcoming "math tricks" wiki
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By rtalbert
Posted Wed Oct 22, 2008 at 02:50:27 PM PDT
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Timothy Gowers, Fields Medalist and editor of the Princeton Companion to Mathematics, is now about to unveil a mathematical "tricks" wiki known as the Tricki. The Tricki will initially be a collection of wiki articles on general and specific mathematical problem solving techniques. But what's interesting is that Gowers wants to grow the Tricki into a kind of expert system which will semi-automatically guide mathematicians through problem solving tasks using collected knowledge. Here's the article from Gowers' blog about all that.
I wonder if, in the future, instead of having advisors, PhD students will just be pulling open problems off of a discussion board and solving them with the help of a wiki.
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The AMS Elections are open
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By overconvergent
from the elections department
Posted Wed Sep 10, 2008 at 08:14:55 AM PDT
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This is a public service announcement to say that the AMS Elections are going on, and that one can vote either online or by post; the website gives comprehensive instructions as to how to do this.
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iSquared, the new mathematics magazine
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By overconvergent
from the new magazines department
Posted Sun May 25, 2008 at 03:28:23 PM PDT
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Until Fall 2007, there was no mathematics magazine aimed at the public on general sale in the United Kingdom. Sarah Shepherd, a PhD student at the University of Nottingham, decided that such a magazine would raise the profile of mathematics amongst the general public, and so she started iSquared to fill the gap.
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