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Both Pitt philosophy and Pitt HPS have informally discussed bringing back the GRE (from the 2027-8 admissions round, not this…
Grothendieck certainly changed the landscape but everything he did, whether it was representing functors, constructing new cohomology theories (and proving…
Yale isn’t running an admissions cycle this year but we’ll be thinking about how to do things next year, and…
I’m an AI researcher, and I keep bringing this up in the “what’s going on in AI” threads, but so…
Here are some more reactions from the math community on the OpenAI release: https://proofsandprompts.com/2026/10/08/100-reactions-to-100-solutions/
Departments should call it “superintelligence” instead to be the first in line for federal funding.
Yes, my impression is that what is supposed to save mathematics is that its practitioners become Grothendiecks. The problem is,…
The Kinks are certainly not an obscure band, but the 1975 album Soap Opera didn't do very well in the U.S. or the U.K., and is hardly one of their better-known efforts. The album also includes one of my all-time favorite songs by The Kinks (which also didn't do very well as a single, surprisingly I think):
Feel free to add links to other lesser-known and under-appreciated numbers by The Kinks.
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