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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,…
Continuing last week’s journey down (my) memory lane, I wrote this song after the murder of John Lennon and the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan. It’s lyrical content is still relevant, given America, alas. (I still haven’t heard anyone say: “ban all guns.”) (As noted in the earlier post, this is a 4-track recording, literally “basement tapes.”)
UPDATE: Ironically, I posted this about an hour before the latest gun craziness in Washington, DC.
Both Pitt philosophy and Pitt HPS have informally discussed bringing back the GRE (from the 2027-8 admissions round, not this…