Mathematics "blogs"?

Eliot Rosewater

Does anyone know of good maths blogs? Or, even, generally interesting maths websites?

I remember Fremen posting a link to a good blog before, but I forget where it is!

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Fremen

It kinda depends what you're after. Mathematicians working in different disciplines blog about different things, after all.

Terry Tao's blog "what's new" is the one I linked to. Most of his technical articles take a considerable amount of work to read, and to be honest most go over my head. He has expository articles and preprints of textbooks too. His measure theory text is on my 'to do' list.

John Baez wrote "This week's finds" for a number of years. It's quite famous by now, though he's expanded it as "azimuth", and it's no longer strictly mathematical. TWF has insane depth nad breadth though. Again, I'd like to give it more time than I have done.

Qiaochu Yuan is some five years my junior, and already knows more maths than I ever expect to know. His blog "annoying precision" is worth a look.

Finally, the "soft question", "big list" and "intuition" topics on mathoverflow are good for building general knowledge. Math.stackexchange is great for undergrad and non-research graduate level questions.

Michael Collins

For a blog that jumps straight into maths topics with little or no commentary there's The Unapologetic Mathematician. The topics are usually elementary enough if you start from the first post, at the very least it will whet your appetite for learning a particular area.

Although if you're anything like me you'll probably have a big list of stuff you want to learn, but not enough time to learn it with stupid non-maths stuff like life getting in the way.

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There's an American blog from a professor called John Cook called The Endeavour.

It deals with maths, stats, programming, etc. I subscribe to it in Google Reader.

These other blogs look interesting. I'll look at them as well.

KnifeWRENCH

Michael Collins wrote: »

For a blog that jumps straight into maths topics with little or no commentary there's The Unapologetic Mathematician. The topics are usually elementary enough if you start from the first post, at the very least it will whet your appetite for learning a particular area.

Although if you're anything like me you'll probably have a big list of stuff you want to learn, but not enough time to learn it with stupid non-maths stuff like life getting in the way.

Ah yes, I quite like The Unapologetic Mathematician; often gives me a better understanding of proofs/concepts that come up in lectures that initially just confuse me!

cavedave

For maths news and occasional interesting finds http://www.reddit.com/r/math is worth a look

Also http://plus.maths.org/content/ and the ams monthly column http://www.ams.org/samplings/feature-column/fcarc-featurecolumn

ZorbaTehZ

Unfortunately Baez quit the normal TWF a number of months ago to focus exclusively on what he now finds important namely global warming. Gone downhill since.

Here's a few more I keep an eye on

http://mathlesstraveled.com/ Pretty low level, but usually some good problems.

http://blog.tanyakhovanova.com/ Very good blog for cool problems.

The others have been mentioned, Yuan's blog is good but he posts a lot more infrequently now since he left the US.

LeixlipRed

I missed that subtle spam!

bnt

The Weinerworks seemed fairly interesting at first, but I haven't been reading all of it since the author started writing a Calculus text book, apparently. He's on part 25 and hasn't even got to Differentiation yet.