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.

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

On proof and progress in mathematics, by William Thurston.

Birds and frogs, by Freeman Dyson.

The two cultures of mathematics by Timothy Gowers.

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

Miscellanea

My Erdős number is three:

Francesco Veneziano Umberto Zannier Andrzej Schinzel Paul Erdős