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Pardon us for being a bit provincial today. 😊

R.I.P.

Sources:https://statistics.stanford.edu/news/remembering-herman-chernoff-1923-2026

Terry Tao digs into Claude Fable AI's counterexample to the Jacobean conjecture in three dimensions. A result that some have described as AI's biggest accomplishment to date.

Source:https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/07/21/a-digestion-of-the-jacobian-conjecture-counterexample/

Another one bites the dust.

Sourcehttps://cdn.openai.com/pdf/04d1d1e4-bc75-476a-97cf-49055cd98d31/cdc_proof.pdf

Matt Baker discusses the roles that Chat GPT and Lean played in a paper recently posted to ArXiv.

Source:https://mattbaker.blog/2026/07/21/the-geometry-of-snowflaked-ptolemaic-metric-spaces/

The NYT's coverage of the Field Medalists.

Source:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/briefing/a-big-day-for-math.html?unlocked_article_code=1.0lA.5Dib.kjS_RsAiS52f&smid=url-share

Source:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobian_conjecture

Congratulations! 🎉

Source:https://maa.org/news/team-usa-takes-second-place-at-67th-imo/

Making it official. If you follow this page, you know that the names of the winners were leaked before the official announcement.

Source:https://www.mathunion.org/imu-awards/fields-medal/fields-medals-2026