Computational Complexity
Guest Post from Peter Brass, Former NSF Theory Director, on the NSF budget.
Afterthoughs on Banach Tarski and the Miracle of loaves and Fishes
Fun Little Solutions
I helped the Pope's with his latest Encyclical (His Math Background Helped)
Fun Little Problems
My Oxford Term
A $100 dollar gift care could be legit. A $1000 is obviously a Scam. What should scammers do?
Bennett and Brassard Win the Turing Award
For \(R^3\) the problem is open. Thats too bad. We live in \(R^3\)
Tony Hoare (1934-2026)
How does AI do on Baseball-Brothers-Pitchers
The Purpose of Proofs
Goodhart's law: Ken Jennings and Types of Knowledge
A Probability Challenge
ChatGPT gets an easy math problem wrong (I got it right). How is that possible?
Joe Halpern (1953-2025)
Assigning Open Problems in Class
The Future of Mathematics and Mathematicians
I used to think historians in the future will have too much to work with. I could be wrong
Sampling the Oxford CS Library
Before the ChatGPT-HW debate there were other ``If students use X to do their HW'' debates
The Fighting Temeraire (Re)visited
Online Talks on Accessible Theorems!
Community
What to do about students using ChatGPT to do their homework?
Rational Functions Solved!
Is `smells like' commutative?
Computational Depth
AI and Research Papers
The Betty White Award for 2025
Complexity Year in Review
A Place Away From Tech
Weird Al vs Weird AI
Learning the Mathematical Process
Tom Stoppard 1937-2025
Finding Papers Before the Web
Does ChatGPT really help programmers?
The Little Theorems
Factoring Carmichael Numbers
Test of Time Awards: A Good Idea but ....
The Future of Teaching Assistants
A Presidential Trivia Question, how I tried to solve it
The Complexity Argument for Capitalism
Did Euclid exist? Is it okay to quote people that did not exist?
AI and the Power of Nonuniform Circuits
Bill's Bad Advice
AI and Intro Theory
Sept 16, 2025 was Pythagorean Day
Fall Jobs Post 2025
The Most Common Name in the World is Not Charles Lin. But It Seems That Way To Me.
Big Bots Don't Cry
If you use AI in your work do our brag about it or hide it?
Computers Don't Want
Clyde Kruskal talks about his Father Martin on Martin's 100th birthday
Self-Driving Cars
We can find more papers on the web than we used to. Are we reading them?
What is "PhD-Level Intelligence"?
``I'm on vacation so I won't be checking email'' will sound funny soon. Maybe it already does.
Is the Prob Method `Just Counting'- I say no and HELL NO
A Restless Soul
Guest Post on Why Coding Style is Important
The Logical Argument
Was the George Foreman Grill The Best Invention of the last 50 Years?
The Phone
A few more notes about Tom L
Total Pixel Space
My Tom L post inspired a mathematical definition of Rabbithole
AI and ...
Some thoughts on journals, refereeing, and the P vs NP problem
Tom Lehrer Passed Away at the Age of 97
Answer to my GROUP ONE/GROUP TWO Prez question
Trevisan Prize- Deadline July 31 for Notification Intent, Aug 31 for nomination.
A Prez Question: Can AI do it? Can you? Can I?
Turing, Wagner, Ruth
How much money did Francis Scott Key give to have a building named after him?
The Customers of the Academy
The New Lower Bound on Busy Beaver of 6.