Mark Peplow, former Nature staffer, and current editor of the Royal Societyof Chemistry’s Chemistry World is here in Buda, and he’s recording his impressions on a brand new soft-launched blog, which is available here: https://prospect.rsc.org/blogs/cw.

Recent work confirms proof of century-old problem.

Some speculation always precedes the announcement of the Fields medals, the most illustrious awards in mathematics. But this year rumours have an extra dimension: one of the prizes to be awarded at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Madrid on 22 August may be given for the solution of a century-old problem.

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