Random recent posts
A random selection of recent posts from around the mathematical blogosphere.
- 3 survival tips for first-year college studentsLaura Albert's Punk Rock Operations Research
- Editors of higher education journal coauthor editorial with fake referencesRetraction Watch
- UN votes to support map projection that accurately shows the size of AfricaFlowingData
- andreazchen: I had a very interesting discussion about theater and film the other day. My parents...Thales’ circles
- 🪷水到渠成🪷 where water flows a channel will formThales’ circles
- love the phrase “vice versa” im not saying all that again reversedThales’ circles
- Something that I think should be an important part of solarpunk aesthetics is screws.Thales’ circles
- Finite-time blowupQuomodocumque
- Math 4 Teens - Path Integral ProblemsUnizor - Creative Mind through Art of Mathematics
- “In the Weights”—an exclusive invitation just for you!Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
- \(-e^{i\pi}\) to Watch: aboutlogicThe Aperiodical
- Don’t Be Too Sure dramatis personaeQuomodocumque
- Notes on Etymology and History of Math Terms - TangramsPat'sBlog
- On This Day in Math - September 5Pat'sBlog
- Rede zum Schuljahresanfang und Oscar-VerleihungSchule, Schulleitung, Familie, DIY
- Bonus podcast: Norman NumbersMore or Less
- Computing a lower bound on matrix rankJohn D. Cook
- Vibe Coding and the Next Silent Cyber RiskFreakonometrics
- (Reposting as the darkened lines weren’t displaying properly.) Here is a puzzle I made on the 4D…Thales’ circles
- Procrastination study by Duke’s Dan Ariely retracted after sleuths find signs of data tamperingRetraction Watch
- Update on “I don’t understand this paper claiming election fraud in 2024 in Pennsylvania”Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
- Updike and statistical writing; more on honesty and precisionStatistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
- Biography of Elon Musk by Walter IsaacsonHydrobates
- Amazing: There is no Percolation at the Critical Probability in all Dimensions. (Solved by AI via a conjecture of Gady Kozma and Shahaf Nitzan.)Combinatorics and more
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 68The Aperiodical
- Half-truths about Galileo and the telescope all dressed up in a kitschy graphicThe Renaissance Mathematicus
- Brauer groups of Fano 3-foldsPieter Belmans
- Math 4 Teens - Path IntegralsUnizor - Creative Mind through Art of Mathematics
- This University of Chicago business school professor has authored 258 academic papers in 2026 (so far).Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
- Cochran's Q test in R, or the extension of McNemar's test for more than two groupsStats and R
- Friday video/podcast recommendations -- Carl Brown editionWest Coast Stat Views (on Observational Epidemiology and more)