Solving Rota’s Conjecture

In August last year Professor Geoff Whittle announced that he and collaborators Jim Geelen and Bert Gerards had proved the 40-year-old Rota’s Conjecture on the representability of matroids over finite fields. Now a high-level summary and brief history of the proof, by the three researchers, has appeared in the prestigious Notices of the American Mathematical Society. See http://www.ams.org/notices/201407/index.html Geoff, Gerards and Geelen are now immersed in formally writing up the proof, a process that will take several years' intensive work.