alexkontorovich

In the Math Corps, we follow a Kids Teaching Kids — and, more importantly, Kids Caring About Kids — model.

When we teach calculus, we at once introduce (at least) 5 new concepts (limits, tangent lines/slopes, derivatives, area, integrals), all intertwined together.

Announcing: The $10,000 AMR “Paper of the Future” Prize For centuries, mathematics has been communicated in a fundamentally linear medium: the written page.

This is Dave Smith, a mathematical artist.

My former student Xin Zhang has announced a proof of Zaremba’s conjecture, based on a breakthrough of Ilya Shkredov!

My current self-imposed rule for this blog is that for any new post, I also have to transfer here one old Twitter thread (until all those worth documenting have been moved).

This is an extended version of a talk I gave at the Newton Institute’s “AI for Maths and Open Science” conference.

I’ve been on Twitter (now X) since November 2018, after some prodding from both Steve Strogatz and Grant Sanderson.