Extras

Blogs

What’s new, by Terence Tao

Gowers’s Weblog, by Timothy Gowers

Freedom Math Dance, by Antoine Chambert-Loir

Mathematics without Apologies, by Michael Harris

Xena, by Kevin Buzzard

David Mumford’s blog

Polymath

Essays

Cargo Cult Science · Caltech’s 1974 commencement address by Richard Feynman.

On proof and progress in mathematics, by William Thurston.

What is good mathematics?, by Terence Tao.

A Mathematician’s Lament · An essay on the state of mathematics teaching in schools, by Paul Lockhart.

Birds and frogs, by Freeman Dyson.

The two cultures of mathematics by Timothy Gowers.

Mathematics for Human Flourishing · The retiring address by former president of the Mathematical Association of America Francis Su.

Mathematical methods and human thought in the age of AI, by Tanya Klowden and Terence Tao.

The fall of the theorem economy · Reflections on the impact of LLMs on mathematical research, by David Bessis.

Miscellanea

MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive

My Maths genealogy

My Erdős number is three: Francesco Veneziano Umberto Zannier Andrzej Schinzel Paul Erdős