Blogs about Mathematics

Michael Mitzenmacher is making an unusual request for publicity for his NON-participation in a conference (\(\mathbb{M}\)). It calls itself ICAIM, the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics, to be held in Nanjing in September, …

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[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.] This morning, I read a short article describing certain …

In a recent preprint, Siddharth Bhandari and Abhishek Khetan have improved the decades old upper bound on the trifference problem by using a clever combinatorial argument involving extremal graph theory. As discussed in my previous …

Continuing from the previous post, we have a website for the conference now, and you can now register for the conference. We are planning to have two poster sessions, and we might be able to …

Sheeva Azma is a successful science communicator who runs her own freelance business.

When I wrote about weights I mentioned that there was in some senses a fourth type of weights after sampling weights, precision weights, and frequency weights. The idea is that sometimes you have weights that …

Oops, I thought this post went live but found it sitting in the draft pile. I referred to it in this week's post. So here it is... Wendy's, a U.S. burger chain, must have thought …

Roll up, roll up, roll up. Come hither come all to the Carnival of Mathematics. This is the 224th Edition of the longest running Maths Carnival. For those of you who are unaware, a “blog …

$\newcommand\R{\mathbb{R}}\newcommand\C{\mathbb{C}}\newcommand\Z{\mathbb{Z}}$ 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 …

Happy Passover to all our readers On the way from Cambridge to Tel Aviv I had a splendid three hour visit to London (from Kings Cross to UCL and back), where I met my graduate …

I posted (see here) about Avi Wigderson being a counterexample to two of G.H. Hardy's opinions:1) Hardy thought Math was a young man's game. I got some good comments on this. Some agreed and some …

This is the guest post by Bran Haig on July 12, 2019 in response to the “abandon statistical significance” editorial in The American Statistician (TAS) by Wasserstein, Schirm, and Lazar (WSL 2019). In the post …

The other day I went to the cinema and watched M3GAN, a true movie masterpiece1 about the death and carnage that ensues when you simply train your extremely complex ML model and don’t do proper …

In this somewhat different post, I am hosting the long-running Carnival of Mathematics. First I’ll talk about 223 (the issue number) and then I’ll round up some mathematical posts from December 2023. It’s primetime we …

The electronic version of the latest issue of the Girls’ Angle Bulletin is now available on our website. Can you figure out the connection between the cover image and cubic polynomials? We open with the …

Richard Feynman and Gian-Carlo Rota worked on different parts of science during their separate careers. Feynman of course was one of the most important scientists of the 20th century—see here. His work in theoretical physics …

In the past two weeks I posted on the arXiv two very different papers. One is in Discrete Geometry (joint with Karim Adiprasito) and another is in Asymptotic Group Theory (joint with Martin Kassabov). Both …

This will be a graduate course at the University of Notre Dame. Course title: Gödel incompleteness Course description. We shall explore at length all aspects of the Gödel incompleteness phenomenon, covering Turing’s solution of the …

Julia. Scala. Lua. TypeScript. Haskell. Go. Dart. Various computer languages new and old are sometimes proposed as better alternatives to mainstream languages. But compared to mainstream choices like Python, C, C++ and Java (cf. Tiobe …