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Today is International #WomenInMathematics day, set up in honour of Maryam Mirzakhani, the first female Fields Medallist. To celebrate, we've collected together articles celebrating the incredible women in maths we have worked with over the last year. plus.maths.org/happy-2026-wom…

We're super proud to host an extract of Richard Elwes' brilliant new book "Huge numbers". The article explores a fascinating Mayan #calendar with insights into the underlying notion of time and the #Maya way of writing numbers plus.maths.org/endless-progre… #maths #math #numbers

@PardoeMary Ah yes, sorry!

March 28, rather than March 18 I think?

Marcus will be talking about this topic at @NewtonInstitute on Saturday March 18, 2026, as part of the @Cambridge_Fest. Tickets are sold out but the talk will be live streamed newton.ac.uk/event/cf2026/

Are you interested in the connections between #maths and #art? Then you'll probably like @MarcusduSautoy's new book "Blueprints". Here's an excerpt: plus.maths.org/blueprints-how…

We're very sorry if you are experiencing any problems accessing the website today - we're aware and working on it 💪🦺🛠️🧐

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.

The @abel_prize 2026 has been awarded to Gerd Faltings! Woohoo! He received the prize for bringing together number theory and geometry to understand solutions to equations. Find out more here: plus.maths.org/abel-2026 #maths #math #mathematics

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. @abelprize?si=GhSE7-0t6NBUMLFH" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@abelprize?si=… #abelprize2026 #mathematics #abelprize

Tomorrow is #PiDay2026! And next week the winner of the 2026 @abel_prize will be announced. We celebrate one with the other by bringing you our articles on all the winners of the Prize since it was first awarded in 2003 until 2025. #abelprize plus.maths.org/happy-pi-day-2…

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.

I've been playing with some constructions but then went made a little animation - no huge revelation just joy in playing.

Turns out that category theory, once described as "abstract nonsense" is just what we need to understand materials we might be able to build #quantum #computers with. We've told the story here plus.maths.org/abstract-nonse… @NewtonInstitute

Pure #maths has a habit of becoming useful decades, even centuries, after it was first developed. We came across an interesting example of this at a recent @NewtonInstitute programme....

Happy birthday!! Here's an article about some of Sullivan's work plus.maths.org/content/abel

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."⁠

Are you interested in communicating maths to non-expert audiences? Then you may be interested in our event at @NewtonInstitute in Cambridge on Jan 29. We have a bunch of interesting speakers, including 2 Zeeman medal winners! Registration is still open gateway.newton.ac.uk/event/tgm156/

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

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.

Clear, reliable information is increasingly scarce, so let's reward those who produce trustworthy sources of communication. Entries for the Harding Prizes for Trustworthy Communication are now open! Hardingprize.com @senseaboutsci @SMC_IISERPune @FacultyMaths