Math Is Still Catching Up to the Mysterious Genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan (2024)(quantamagazine.org)

65 points by paulpauper 6 months ago | 11 comments

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

124 points by anujbans 5 months ago | 26 comments

The Mathematician Who Sculpted the Shape of Space(quantamagazine.org)

96 points by digital55 3 years ago | 19 comments

Mathematical Thinking Isn't What You Think It Is(quantamagazine.org)

30 points by isaacfrond 1 year ago | 8 comments

Everyone is capable of, and can benefit from, mathematical thinking(quantamagazine.org)

533 points by sonabinu 1 year ago | 303 comments

Quanta Magazine Q&A with mathematician David Bessis arguing that everyone is capable of, and can benefit from, mathematical thinking.

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

44 points by ykonstant 3 years ago | 35 comments

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.

We're gonna need a lot more mathematicians(terrytao.wordpress.com)

358 points by srcreigh 1 month ago | 461 comments

Guest post by Amit Sahai on Terence Tao's blog arguing that the world will need many more mathematicians, reflecting on students who left math due to pace.

The Mathocalypse(scottaaronson.blog)

361 points by 6bitquant 18 days ago | 380 comments

Scott Aaronson blog post reacting to OpenAI releasing hundreds of AI-generated math results, including a claimed proof of Khot's Unique Games Conjecture.

Biology might not be quantum, but its math is quantumlike(quantamagazine.org)

112 points by pseudolus 1 month ago | 49 comments

Quanta Magazine article arguing that while biology may not rely on quantum effects, the mathematics describing biological systems resembles quantum math.

In Search of a Compositional Theory of Self-Stabilization(muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)

44 points by matt_d 1 month ago | 3 comments

Blog post on the Metadata blog exploring compositional theories of self-stabilization, using a rely-guarantee TLA+ model of a retry storm and metastable failure.

Why Math Dumped OpenAI(raymyers.org)

11 points by xeonmc 9 days ago | 0 comments

A blog post by Ray Myers arguing why the mathematics community moved away from OpenAI.