Blogs about Mathematics

This week I’m in Melbourne Australia (or really Hawthorn) for the 8th International Meeting on Origami in Science, Mathematics and Education (8OSME) at the Swinburne University of Technology (\(\mathbb{M}\)). There are three days of four …

In this guide, I have compiled a list of ten highly recommended AP Calculus AB textbooks and math books that are perfect for self-study.

[Equations in this post may not look right (or appear at all) in your RSS reader. Go to the original article to see them rendered properly.] In yesterday’s post, I obscured my location by covering …

I have uploaded a preprint which concludes a joint work with John Bamberg and Ferdinand Ihringer that started last year during their visit to TU Delft. In this work, we have done one of my …

Continuing from last two posts, this is a final reminder to register to 120 Years of Choice. Registration ends next week on the 20th of June. We are very excited about the speakers and the …

The third in the series about every year of Numberphile. Videos about Algebriac Geometry, the Mandelbrot Set, and the Taxicab Number.

The term “t-test” is a bit of a troll here, since I don’t mean either a test or the Normal-based inference developed by Gossett. I’m interested in two-sample comparisons of means, effectively non-parametric in moderate …

Techcrunch did an investigation which uncovered that USPS (US Postal Office) is sending some private data of customres to social-media sites. This news concerns USPS's "Informed Delivery" service, which allows customers to view images of …

Roll up, roll up, roll up and welcome to the two hundred and twenty ninth Carnival of Mathematics! 229 is a prime number, and that in itself is interesting. Its the “elder” of a set …

$\newcommand\R{\mathbb{R}}\newcommand\C{\mathbb{C}}\newcommand\Z{\mathbb{Z}}$ Chain Rule for Map between Open Subsets of Euclidean Space Let $M$ be an open subset of $\R^m$, $N$ be an open subset of $\R^n$, and $O$ be an open subset of $\R^p$. Let …

Here is a great question invented by Michele Piccione and Ariel Rubinstein. (Let me use this opportunity to recommend their mind boggling 1997 paper on the absent-minded driver.) The question (TYI 55) The proportion of …

Invited Speaker Nutan Limaye, Conference Chair Valentine Kabanets,2024 PC Chair Rahul Santhanam, myself, 2025 PC Chair Srikanth Srinivasanand 2025 Local Arrangements chair Swastik Kopparty enjoy some tapas.I have a long history with the Computational Complexity …

. Has the “abandon significance” movement in statistics trickled down into philosophy of science? A little bit. Nowadays (since the late 1990’s [i]), probabilistic inference and confirmation enter in philosophy by way of fields dubbed …

I am, once again, in a bit of a mood. And the only thing that will fix my mood is a good martini and a Laplace approximation. And I’m all out of martinis. To be …

We all have some problem we are trying to solve. First off, if you can convert the problem to text, or increasingly pdfs, images, video, etc., then you might be able to use AI for …

The electronic version of the latest issue of the Girls’ Angle Bulletin is now available on our website. We interview Skidmore College Program Director of the First Year Experience and Professor of Mathematics Rachel Roe-Dale. …

The Fulkerson prize is given to: outstanding papers in the area of discrete mathematics and is sponsored jointly by the Mathematical Optimization Society (MOS) and the American Mathematical Society (AMS). Up to three awards of …

By and large, math journals treat the authors like a pesky annoyance, sort of the way a local electric company treats its customers. As in — yes, serving you is our business, but if you …

This will be a talk for the Philosophy of Mathematics Seminar at the University of Oxford, 19 May 2025. Abstract. I shall describe a simple historical thought experiment showing how our attitude toward the continuum …

Imagine in a game of Rock, Paper, Scissors one player is free to play as usual but the other is required to choose each option the same number of times. That is, in 3n rounds …