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Terence Tao's Math Blog

tomcircle wrote 1 month ago: Terence Tao (Fields Medalist) “It is truism that one of the best ways to learn a subject is to … more →

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Varieties

dochunosei wrote 8 months ago: Just a quick post to heartily recommend Terence Tao’s latest blog post, “A trivial remark abou … more →

Tags: mathematics, Education, Geometry, Algebra., Algebraic Geometry

Striking Goldbach3 comments

wiseowlpsc wrote 9 months ago: Goldbach’s Conjecture was first proposed in a weak form by Christian Goldbach in the 18th cent … more →

Tags: Math, Goldbach conjecture, euler

From classical deduction to Bayesian probability

Rod Carvalho wrote 9 months ago: Terence Tao on classical deduction and Bayesian probability: In classical logic, one can represent o … more →

Tags: Thoughts, Probability Theory, logic, Classical Deduction, Bayesianism, frequentism, philosophy of probability, Bayesian Deduction

2012 Young Mathematicians Conference

U. of Oklahoma Math Club wrote 11 months ago: Registration is now open to attend the 2012 Young Mathematician’s Conference (YMC).  The YMC i … more →

Tags: Math, Conferences, something extra, women in math, Summer Opportunity, Young Mathematicians Conference, Maria Chudnovsky, Karen Vogtmann, The Ohio State University

The Scandal of Closed Access to Taxpayer Funded Research2 comments

Samir Chopra wrote 1 year ago: On January 21, Timothy Gowers of Cambridge announced he would no longer publish papers in Elsevier’s … more →

Tags: Politics, Law and Legal theory, Books, Writing #2, Peer Review, open access, timothy gowers, Elsevier boycott, Wendelin Werner

Both Students And Professors Need Certification, and the Elsevier Boycott7 comments

Santo D'Agostino wrote 1 year ago: I’ve written before about the evils of grading (for example, see here and here), the main purp … more →

Tags: Education, Society, Science research, scott aaronson, New York Times, David Mermin, John Baez, Grades, Credit Recovery

Every odd integer larger than 1 is the sum of at most five primes

Luis R. Guzman, Jr. wrote 1 year ago: Terence Tao has has just posted about his latest paper on Every odd integer larger than 1 is the sum … more →

Tags: Wordpress links, Prime Numbers, Goldbach, Circle Method, exponential sums, Goldbach conjecture, Number Theory, WordPress

Terence Tao: There’s more to mathematics than rigour and proofs

Metroplex Math Circle wrote 1 year ago: A very interesting discussion of the three stages of mathematical education by the amazing Terence T … more →

Tags: Resources, Education, math education, Proof

Interesting and Must Read Papers and Articles in Mathematics2 comments

Gaurav Tiwari wrote 1 year ago: Mathematics is beautiful and there is no place of ugly mathematics in this world. Mathematics is ori … more →

Tags: Featured, fun stuff, Math, arxiv, Blog, Education, Julianne Dalcanton, MathOverflow, Papers

Holiday Readings16 comments

luca wrote 1 year ago: Now that the Winter break is coming, what to read in between decorating, cooking, eating, drinking a … more →

Tags: Theory, Math, Expanders, Things that are Excellent, Ryan O'Donnell, Matrix Multiplication

Tao’s AMS lecture: Structure and randomness in the prime numbers

Luis R. Guzman, Jr. wrote 1 year ago: This is a link to Terence Tao’s “retired” lecture Structure and randomness in the … more →

Tags: Mathematics Posts, Mathematician, Prime Numbers, Number Theory, Lecture, structure and randomness in the prime numbers

Collatz Conjecture

Luis R. Guzman, Jr. wrote 1 year ago: Terry Tao on the Collatz Conjecture … more →

Tags: Mathematics Posts, xkcd, Comics, Humor, Math, Number Theory, Collatz Conjecture

A Trip to Mathematics: Part-I Logic5 comments

Gaurav Tiwari wrote 1 year ago: About “A Trip To Mathematics”: A Trip to Mathematics is an indefinitely long series, aim … more →

Tags: Math, Study Notes, Research, mathematics, Education, latex, logic, Sentence (linguistics), if and only if

$7 Million Prize: The Millennium Prize Problems

Ram Kumar Shrestha wrote 1 year ago: In order to celebrate mathematics in the new millennium, The Clay Mathematics Institute of Cambridge … more →

Tags: Global, CMI, Millennium Prize, James Carlson, Resolution of the Poincaré conjecture, Grigoriy Perelman, clay mathematics, simon donaldson, David Gabai

Social Networks for Math Majors9 comments

Gaurav Tiwari wrote 1 year ago: Math or Mathematics is not as difficult as it is thought to be. Mathematical Patterns, Structures, G … more →

Tags: Math, Tech, recreations, arxiv, Blog, Blogging, Education, Gil Kalai, latex

Mini Polymath

U. of Oklahoma Math Club wrote 1 year ago: Once again it’s time for the International Math Olympiad.  As we talked about last year, that … more →

Tags: Math, something extra, On the Web, international math olympiad, mini-polymath, IMO

Dumb questions, voting for managers and open email

Mike Clayton wrote 1 year ago: Web-based collaboration has come a long way, since the launch of Wikipedia.  In fact, Wikipedia, whi … more →

Tags: General Management, Hanny's Voorwerp, Polymath project, hanny van arkel, timothy gowers, the Mix, Management Information Exchange, web collaboration, Galaxy Zoo

Dispersive Wiki

mfrasca wrote 2 years ago: Since I was seventeen my great passion has been the solution of partial differential equations. I us … more →

Tags: Applied mathematics, mathematics, Mathematical Physics, Partial Differential Equations


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