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Missing a complex opportunity
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Spacetime does ripple
Physicists have finally detected the gravitational waves they have been chasing for nearly 100 years.
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The future of proof
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Constant worries
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Manjul Bhargava: revealing numbers
Manjul Bhargava is being honoured as a number theorist of "extraordinary creativity," with "a taste for simple problems of timeless beauty."
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Artur Avila: taming chaos
Artur Avila is being honoured for "formidable technical power, the ingenuity and tenacity of a master problem-solver, and an unerring sense for deep and
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