A wonderful coincidence or an expected connection: why π² ≈ g(roitman.io)

6 points by amichail 2 years ago | 0 comments

Alexander Grothendieck Revolutionized 20th-Century Mathematics(quantamagazine.org)

124 points by anujbans 5 months ago | 26 comments

Mystery math whiz and novelist advance permutation problem(quantamagazine.org)

201 points by sashank_1509 3 years ago | 80 comments

Will Computers Redefine the Roots of Math?(quantamagazine.org)

44 points by ykonstant 3 years ago | 35 comments

A New Geometry for Einstein's Theory of Relativity(quantamagazine.org)

120 points by jandrewrogers 1 year ago | 8 comments

In math, rigor is vital, but are digitized proofs taking it too far?(quantamagazine.org)

110 points by isaacfrond 7 months ago | 99 comments

The number pi has an evil twin(mathstodon.xyz)

553 points by pkaeding 1 year ago | 200 comments

A Mastodon thread by John Carlos Baez explaining the lemniscate constant ϖ, an analogue of pi tied to the lemniscate curve and its sl and cl functions.

Why I love NixOS(birkey.co)

411 points by birkey 7 months ago | 277 comments

A personal blog post explaining why the author loves NixOS, focusing on the deterministic, reproducible Nix package manager rather than the Linux distro itself.

Why is every rationalist blog post way too long?(alexwennerberg.com)

384 points by epestr 12 days ago | 362 comments

Blog post by Alex Wennerberg arguing that rationalist community blog posts are excessively long and that verbosity substitutes for thoroughness.

Human mathematicians are being outcounterexampled(xenaproject.wordpress.com)

456 points by artninja1988 3 months ago | 225 comments

A Xena Project blog post about mathematicians being outpaced at finding counterexamples, from the blog on mathematicians learning the Lean theorem prover.

Why blog if nobody reads it?(andysblog.uk)

681 points by alexgiann 1 year ago | 307 comments

A personal blog post from February 2025 arguing for the value of blogging even when few or no people read it.

Encrypting private data and private communications is now an ethical duty(blog.tripu.info)

416 points by gasull 3 years ago | 200 comments

A personal blog essay arguing that end-to-end encrypting private data and communications has become an ethical duty, using a glass-walls analogy.