Ashoke Sen has been awarded the prestigious Oskar Klein Medal for 2026, becoming the first Indian physicist to receive the honour. Previous recipients include Nobel laureates Chen-Ning Yang, Steven Weinberg and Hans Bethe, who received the medal in its first three years.

"We recognize the power of new technologies for mathematical reasoning and appreciate what they can contribute to the subject we know and love. We are generally optimistic about the role AI can play, but we are deeply concerned by some recent calls to formalize everything as quickly as possible. If done well, a large-scale, coordinated formalization effort could enormously expand mathematical exploration and discovery. Done poorly, it will be, at best, a waste of resources; more likely, it will do lasting damage." A guest post on xenaproject by Jeremy Avigad, Kevin Buzzard, Johan Commelin, Rémy Degenne, Kim Morrison, Oliver Nash and Adam Topaz xenaproject.wordpress.com/20…

Amazing!! Bryce Kerr has found a simpler proof of no Siegel zeros, in only 6 pages. This is perhaps the Proof from the Book: Number fields play a key role again, in this case the bi-quatratic extension \Q(\sqrt{2},\sqrt{q}). The proof leverages a classical result of Masser on polynomial degrees.

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AI-assisted mathematics is fascinating.

We may be entering an era where mathematics becomes more powerful, collaborative, and AI-assisted than ever... But I hope we preserve the joy of exploration, the struggle to understand, and the human curiosity that makes mathematics more than a collection of results...

We want to support the mathematics community in turning progress in AI into deeper human understanding and new discoveries. To support that goal, we are contributing $5 million to a new Simons Foundation initiative to help mathematicians examine, understand, and build on results produced by AI, including the results we recently published. The funding, managed and awarded by the @SimonsFdn will support workshops, conferences, and special programs. We will also provide access to our models and computing resources to Simons Foundation-supported researchers.

How can the math community forge the best path forward in the AI age? We're committing $15M to workshops and initiatives — plus free AI computing resources for foundation-supported researchers — through new partnerships with @AnthropicAI and @OpenAI: bit.ly/4zpfIbW #math #science #AI

An astrophysicist worked with Claude Science to create the first complete ultraviolet map of the sky. Astronomers have already created complete sky maps from radio to gamma rays. But large regions of the sky have never been observed in UV. In today’s science blog, Brice Ménard explains how he guided Claude to find existing datasets, combine them, and fill in the gaps with statistical inference. The work would have taken humans weeks of work, but, with Claude, just took a few days while Ménard worked on other projects. The resulting map is a useful teaching tool and an example of exactly the sort of slow, low-priority work which scientists never quite get around to, but which AI now makes feasible. Read more: anthropic.com/research/the-m…

BREAKING NEWS The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2026 #NobelPeacePrize to Navanethem “Navi” Pillay for her efforts to promote peace and international law. #NobelPrize

“When AI Solves Major Open Problems: What Does It Mean for the Future of Mathematics — and Beyond?”  A panel at @MoMath1 moderated by Manjul Bhargava, featuring @AlexKontorovich, Ankur Moitra, and @stephen_wolfram. 
momath.org/mathfuture

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AI-assisted mathematics is getting very real, very fast...

We’re releasing a broad range of new mathematical results produced by an internal frontier model. We’ve been consulting with the independent Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence at the Institute for Advanced Study, and we have drawn on their advice and public recommendations to inform how we release these results. github.com/openai/math

Imagine detecting particles that can travel through the Earth. And then building a telescope out of Antarctic ice to detect particles that barely interact with matter. The particles? Neutrinos. Congratulations Prof. Francis Halzen on the #NobelPrize in Physics. @NobelPrize

BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2026 #NobelPrize in Physics to Francis Halzen “for decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin.”

Nobel Week is almost here. 🏅 6 prizes. 6 announcement days. @NobelPrize 🧬 Oct 5 — Physiology or Medicine ⚛️ Oct 6 — Physics 🧪 Oct 7 — Chemistry 📖 Oct 8 — Literature 🕊️ Oct 9 — Peace 📈 Oct 12 — Economic Sciences Which one are you waiting for?

arXiv has updated our policy on rate limiting for all submitters. This update was made to fairly distribute moderator time & support the arXiv community of staff, volunteers, readers & authors. Please read our announcement to learn more: blog.arxiv.org/2026/10/01/up…

"What math means to me" (by Larry Guth): arxiv.org/abs/2609.32028 "This is a personal essay about how I see math, what I value about it, and what it means to me."