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Beautiful symmetry provides glimpse into quantum world
E8 symmetry discovered in lab for the first time
Winner of the general public category. Enormous is the right word: this theorem's proof spans over 10,000 pages in 500 journal articles and no-one today understands all its details. So what does the theorem say? Richard Elwes has a short and sweet introduction.
Tope Omitola looks back at the tragically short but inspiringly productive life of a true original: Evariste Galois.