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This doesn’t exactly guarantee meaningful work, let alone jobs, for most mathematicians…
Suppose that an alien spacecraft arrived at Jupiter and we started communicating in radio. The aliens appear friendly but mostly…
I’m a mathematician who is terrified and exhilarated. Perhaps an expert in the sublime could explain that. To take one…
I’m a mathematician, but work in an applied field – AI, actually – that has not yet been impacted by…
Kelsen was certainly right about U.S. law schools in the 1940s and for a couple of decades thereafter. By the…
I don’t know about antisemitism. I think it is more generally a kind of contempt for European exiles (most of…
Having attended a few talks by leading mathematicians working on fluid dynamics after the OpenAI solution of the NS problem…
Back in 2008. (I was amused to see that piece was sent to me by Sarah Jeong, who now works for the NYT!)
UPDATE: More scathingly funny criticism of Friedman (back in 2014) (thanks to Nathan Ballantyne for the pointer).
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