Mathematical news sources.

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I'm studying my high school right now but I really like math and it would be great for me if I could find a place where I can find about what is going on in the math world nowadays. About a year ago I was subscribed to the scientific american magazine and one time they put an article in there about Terrence Tao http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2012arXiv1201.6656T finding this proof to a weak version of the Goldbach conjecture.

Any good places where I can get a grasp of current mathematical research and what is being done right now? I know about papers and journals but I would like to get a wider picture without needing to be an expert in every field.

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There's an extensive mathblog circuit. While some blogs maintain a high level of rigor, I'd say that most intermix deep math, general thoughts and ramblings, and recent events of interest.

I'd like to recommend 4:

  1. Firstly, the conglomerator mathblogging.org is a big compendium of bloggers that is somewhat differentiated based on the skill level and content.

  2. Secondly, I recommend Terry Tao's blog, although much of the time, Terry talks about his own research which will probably fly above most audiences.

  3. I also recommend Timothy Gower's blog, which tends to be almost entirely math news.

  4. If you'll forgive the self-plugging, I also think my blog is pretty approachable, and I try to talk about things of interest to the greater math community some times.

Also, perhaps surprisingly, many mathematicians are very active of GooglePlus. Really, I'm serious.

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The notes in American Mathematical Monthly don't generally require PhD level expertise (though many of the articles do). They aren't always about current events, but it could be a good place to start.

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Less of a "news" kind of answer, but I very much recommend casually reading the Princeton Companion To Mathematics. It helps bring you up to speed by giving a broad overview of various topics.