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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…
Japanese power trio led by Hendrix-inspired guitarist Shinki Chen, this is the lead number of their only album:
UPDATE: On Twitter, Andrew Grossman points out to me that in fact they released a second album, in 1972: some details here.
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