Random recent posts
A random selection of recent posts from around the mathematical blogosphere.
- Weekend reads: OpenAI’s preprint dump; Taylor & Francis to leave Informa; arXiv’s preprint capRetraction Watch
- Smart Lotteries in School Choice Ex-ante Pareto-Improvement with Ex-post Stability: A Video ExplainerAlgorithmics, Social choice, Market Design, and Other Topics
- #11 fraction .... History and Etymology of Math TermsPat'sBlog
- On This Day in Math - October 10Pat'sBlog
- Thinking more seriously about the design of exploratory studies: A manifestoStatistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
- Weighing in on the latest school debateWest Coast Stat Views (on Observational Epidemiology and more)
- A fablePeter Cameron's Blog
- OpenAI withdraws three preprints a day after releasing 722 manuscripts on unsolved math problemsRetraction Watch
- quasi-Riemannsche Vermutung und Penrose-Ungleichung bewiesen, Baum-Connes-Vermutung widerlegtMathlog
- In praise of questionsQuantum Frontiers
- Privacy policies and modal logicJohn D. Cook
- When the phone inside your ribcage rings, it’s not for me (They Might Be Giants show report)Quomodocumque
- Équité algorithmique et assurance, dernière infolettre (6/6)Freakonometrics
- Intersection Homology and CombinatoricsCombinatorics and more
- 2026 MIT Mystery HuntTanya Khovanova's Math Blog
- Perhaps unfairly, I decided not to include really knowing Harry Potter plots as relevant expertiseWest Coast Stat Views (on Observational Epidemiology and more)
- The last four digits of 16¹⁶The Aperiodical
- Does Programming Help You Understand Complexity?Computational Complexity
- Is it true that “AI Chooses Nuclear Option in 95% of War Simulations”?Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
- AI Skeptics: Government AI Procurement is a Problem (with Jae Kim and Aniket Kesari)mathbabe
- Three Mathematicians and One BookTanya Khovanova's Math Blog
- Equazioni e disequazioni esponenzialiAngelo Stella
- As a society, we are pretty good at transferring money to political pundits, but we’re not very good at nurturing the human capital they would need to correct their own mistakes.Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
- GoniometriaAngelo Stella
- Abenteuer mit dem E-AutoSchule, Schulleitung, Familie, DIY
- L-systems generate weevils, pizza toppings, and matriarchal lineagesThe Universe of Discourse
- Take it to the limit one more time – a history of calculus IVbThe Renaissance Mathematicus
- Here’s a causal inference problem: where did the estimate of $64 million come from in “Blake Lively Says She Suffered $64 Million Financial Fallout From Justin Baldoni Conflict . . .”?Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
- Open Source Middle Years Programme CurriculumThe Reflective Educator
- “Be a Grothendieck!”—On AI and MathematicsCombinatorics and more
- Binomial Coefficient CoincidencesAzimuth