[This is a painful post to write and probably to read, I attempt to soften the blow by including some geometric construction projects I have been working on!] I write this as a UK mathematician recent… more →
Maxwell's Demonwrote 3 months ago: I have written here a number of times before about the movement toward providing open access to scho … more →
wrote 4 months ago: Some may have heard me talk about this before, but I’ve caught the open source bug. At least, … more →
wrote 5 months ago: Gowers writes thoughtfully about combinatorics here, in an essay which references Snow’s famou … more →
wrote 5 months ago: One test day down. Three more to go. Then, we will be officially done with 1/8 of our med school jou … more →
wrote 8 months ago: In case you have missed the Facebook update, the True Tiger team is giving away their latest release … more →
wrote 11 months ago: Timothy Gowers posted on Google+, Although it happened about a month ago, I’ve only just heard … more →
wrote 11 months ago: An anecdote in Sir Ernest Gowers’ Plain Words (1948) under “Troubles with Prepositions” recounts how … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Tim Gowers’ post about Polymath paper published On January 27, 2009 Tim Gowers’ blog he … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Long, long ago in 1948 a civil servant decided he was tired of battling through the pompous, over-el … more →
wrote 1 year ago: In October 2001, more than 30,000 scientists signed an open letter in which they pledged to exclusiv … more →
wrote 1 year ago: A group of mathematicians, myself included, have prepared and signed a statement which attempts to s … more →
wrote 1 year ago: This will be one of the topics discussed at the SENSE panel discussion ‘Varieties of English: How pr … more →
wrote 1 year ago: In my mail: The Best Writing On Mathematics 2011 (Mircea Pitici, ed.) from Princeton University Pre … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Rohit Gupta, who has an educational background in Chemical Engineering and describes himself as … more →
wrote 1 year ago: In reference to the post below, here is the 2009 blog entry about massively collaborative mathematic … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Interesting question: “In 2009, mathematician Timothy Gowers posed this question to the blogos … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Tim Gowers destroys and rebuilds mathematical publishing. Mosteller and Youtz randomize Mozart. The … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Trong loạt bài này, TS. Gowers, huy chương Fields năm 1998, giới thiệu việc giảng dạy và học Toán ch … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Lô-gíc học gắn liền với các suy luận liên quan đến và, hoặc; từ hay cụm từ liên hệ như nhưng, bất cứ … more →