Egyptian Fractions (2006)(blog.plover.com)

103 points by luu 4 months ago | 17 comments

The Irish Logarithm(blog.plover.com)

171 points by 082349872349872 3 years ago | 25 comments

It’s an age of marvels(blog.plover.com)

408 points by pavel_lishin 2 years ago | 389 comments

Blog post by Mark Dominus imagining which modern inventions would or would not astonish Benjamin Franklin, from streetlights and the internet to Wikipedia and Moon landings.

The Origin of Consciousness (2008)(blog.plover.com)

47 points by skm 2 months ago | 39 comments

It is not a compiler error (2017)(blog.plover.com)

89 points by misonic 1 year ago | 77 comments

The Future of Mathematics(terrytao.wordpress.com)

101 points by smilelamp 21 days ago | 53 comments

Guest post by Jeremy Avigad on Terence Tao's blog discussing the future of mathematics, framed by historical transformations of the subject.