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In our latest podcast, Holly Krieger tells us all about the benefits of a career in maths, how she got into her field, and what it is like being on Numberphile. plus.maths.org/holly-krieger-…

Richard Samworth is one of the invited speakers at the International Congress of Mathematicians today - we caught up with him a few weeks ago to get an intro to his topic and how his field of statistics is both very applied and very theoretical. plus.maths.org/richard-samwor…

Now there's great expectation for Terry Tao to take the stage to talk about AI tools, formalisation, and collaboration platforms enable new #maths. Here's something we wrote from a talk of his 2 years ago...how much have things changed? #icm2026 plus.maths.org/how-improve-ma…

We ran an article about AI and image analysis recently with the lovely people from @maths4DL which Carola is part of plus.maths.org/learning-unseen #maths #mathematics

We were very happy to see Carola Schönlieb's talk about image analysis, inverse problems and AI at @icm_2026! (You can find out more about her here: plus.maths.org/meet-carola-bi…) @Maths4DL #maths #mathematics

Here's a nice Quanta article quantamagazine.org/the-man-who-st…

Here is the proof in question plus.maths.org/maths-minute-c…

Been to an amazing talk by Demian Goos who found letters from Dedekind to Cantor. They show that Cantor's proof of the uncountability of the real numbers was down to Dedekind and Dedekind was not happy not to be mentioned on the paper drive.google.com/file/d/1eyXhBF…

We went to the @LondMathSoc booth at the @icm_2026 and were introduced to the LMS honorary President!

Carola mentions Hannah's interesting project with the BBC about epidemics, called Contagion plus.maths.org/very-useful-pa… @icm_2026

Carola Schönlieb from the Maths Faculty at Cambridge is giving the laudatio for Hannah Fry at @icm_2026. Carola is an amazing #mathematician herself, you can find out more about her here: plus.maths.org/meet-carola-bi…

We are now at the press conference with the Prize winners and Hiraku Najajima, Ulrike Tillmannn (IMU outgoing and incoming Presidents) and Thomas Sumner, managing editor for the Simons Foundation @icm_2026 @NewtonInstitute @LondMathSoc

Our very own Hannah Fry has won the 2026 Leelavati Prize for public engagement with #maths! Listen to our #podcast recorded with Hannah Last week plus.maths.org/hannah-fry-icm… @icm_2026 @LondMathSoc @NewtonInstitute

The Gauss Prize, for #maths with important applications, is awarded to Yurii Nesterov for his groundbreaking work on mathematical optimisation @icm_2026 @LondMathSoc @NewtonInstitute #mathematics

The Chern Medal, a life time achievement award, has been awarded to Graeme Segal! plus.maths.org/chern-medal-20… @LondMathSoc @NewtonInstitute @icm_2026 #maths #mathematics

The Abacus Medal, for outstanding contributions to information science, has been awarded to Shayan Oveis Gharan for his landmark contributions to the theory of algorithms!

You can see articles and videos of the Fields Medallists on this page - thanks to them to speaking to us before the event! plus.maths.org/international-… @icm_2026 @LondMathSoc @NewtonInstitute #maths #mathematics

And the fourth Fields Medal goes to Hong Wang plus.maths.org/icm-2026-fm-2 @LondMathSoc @NewtonInstitute @icm_2026

The next Fields Medal goes to Jacob Tsimerman plus.maths.org/icm-2026-fm-4 @icm_2026 @LondMathSoc @NewtonInstitute #maths #mathematics

Another Fields Medal has been awarded to John Pardon plus.maths.org/icm-2026-fm-3 @LondMathSoc @NewtonInstitute @icm_2026