Random recent posts
A random selection of recent posts from around the mathematical blogosphere.
- Exam Results 2026Mathematics, Learning and Technology
- New Simons Collaboration Explores Defects in PhysicsSimons Foundation
- Computer scientists today are in the position of economists in the early 2000s and Freudian psychiatrists in the 1950sStatistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
- From Rating Factors to Crash Mechanisms: A Multiscale Causal DAG Framework Linking Motor Insurance and Road SafetyFreakonometrics
- Manually unbreakable cryptographyJohn D. Cook
- Information = Comprehension × Extension • Comment 5Inquiry Into Inquiry
- Nour Al Hassanieh: Using Wave Dynamics to Improve Medical ImagingSimons Foundation
- On This Day in Math - August 10Pat'sBlog
- Who Really Discovered The Pythagorean Theorem?Mind Your Decisions
- A Bird in the Hand is worth... a Pigeon Hole PrinciplePat'sBlog
- Not All Math Symbols are Equal, or How "=" Became UbiquitousPat'sBlog
- Enough with all the world-historic milestonesShtetl-Optimized
- How not to calculate cosineJohn D. Cook
- 2026 Travel Support for Mathematicians Awardees AnnouncedSimons Foundation
- Not Enron, but not good either.West Coast Stat Views (on Observational Epidemiology and more)
- On This Day in Math - August 7Pat'sBlog
- A partial digestion of the HRT counterexampleWhat's new
- Simons Foundation Funds 12 Targeted Math and Physics Research GroupsSimons Foundation
- Filming Day in Quebec CityFreakonometrics
- The code that didn’t breakJohn D. Cook
- When we went to Mexico City (Part 1)JD2718
- From the series “Somnium” by Laurent Millet (2014) Laurent Millet (b 1968) is a French artist, who…Thales’ circles
- Ballpoint Sierpiński Spinner (2026)Thales’ circles
- Sketches by Jeff HicksImpossible world site blog
- Open Review: Risk Priced SocietyFreakonometrics
- “In that era, undergrad males at Madison and elsewhere, had to take ROTC classes, and he kept intentionally failing them because he was very leftwing politically.”Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
- Mathematical alchemyJohn D. Cook
- Stand-up comedy—like teaching, and book writing—requires “a collaboration with the audience.”Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
- Fishpond Mosaic designed by artist Gary DrostleThales’ circles
- AI Skeptics: Artists are Canaries in the AI Coalmine (with Becky Jaffe)mathbabe
- Riding the Rails of Reason: A Dialogue on Truth, Logic, and ProofJournal of Humanistic Mathematics