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Thomas Hales and Koundinya Vajjha claim a proof of Mahler's first conjecture, that the most unpackable centrally symmetric convex disk in the plane is a smoothed polygon

(via Greg Egan)
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Zhouli Xu claims a proof of the Kervaire invariant one problem in dimension 126

(via Kyle Ormsby)
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Jim Simons has died

(via Alberto Ramos)
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UK Government issues call for £6m funding to set up a National Academy focused on Mathematical Sciences (NAM). Confusingly, this isn't the same thing as the fledgling Academy for the Mathematical Sciences (AcadMathSci), though AcadMathSci may well bid to become NAM.
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First President of the Academy for the Mathematical Sciences (AcadMathSci) will be Professor Alison Etheridge OBE FRS