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We’re so used to it, we hardly notice that men are bigger than women.

My recent essay “Reflections on the Millennium Problems” argues that these famous mathematical challenges are not as important as generally imagined both by the public and even by experts.

We journal editors work valiantly to process the tsunami of manuscripts coming our way, but who knows how long this can last.

A friend sent me an email with “regretfully” where he should have put “regrettably”.

Harvard recently hosted an Undergraduate Math Modernization Summit on the challenge of reinventing undergraduate mathematics education for the AI era.

Kate, a perfectionist, has published Silence: A Literary History.

Grudgingly over the years, I’ve more or less made my peace with the use of “fun” as an adjective.

Many of these notes, like my Applied Mathematician’s Apology, worry that mathematicians these days are interested in rigor and generality but not so much in solving problems.

I’ve recently read Bertrand Russell’s Autobiography and also Duffy’s The World as I Found It, about him and Wittgenstein.

Paul Ehrlich published The Population Bomb in 1968, and since then, the world population has gone up two-and-a-half times.

Every conversation I am in these days ends up on the topic of AI.

Most of us probably have a few things we don’t expect ever to tell anyone, secrets we’ll take to the grave.