The Mathematician 07-01-2026
🏛️ Math History / Culture
Determinism (logarithmichistory.wordpress.com). Explores determinism, Laplace, Einstein, Gisin, chaos theory, intuitionist math, and their implications for predictability
Naming the Infinite (realphysics.blogspot.com). Explores the infinite in mathematics and philosophy, from Cantor to imaginary numbers, linking modern math to physics and ontology
Reaching the masses (not a Marxist post) (quomodocumque.wordpress.com). Six popular math authors discuss talking about math to the public, with notes on precision and dumbing down, plus an Atlantic interview about Marxist art history in math context
Six-decade math puzzle solved by Korean mathematician (koreaherald.com). Korean mathematician Baek Jin-eon solves the moving sofa problem, confirming Gerver’s upper limit using logic and optimization, amid recognition by Scientific American
Cambridge’s Mathematical Bridge: The Quiet Intelligence of a Bridge (abakcus.com). Explores Cambridge’s Mathematical Bridge: straight pieces forming an apparent arch, myths about Newton, and lessons in engineering intuition
🎼 Math Music FP
The Tonnetz (johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com). Tonnetz-inspired hexagonal grid explores rational/irrational log ratios, tuning commas, and near-periodicity in just intonation
Functors, Applicatives, and Monads: The Scary Words You Already Understand (cekrem.github.io). Explains functors, applicatives, and monads using Elm (Maybe, Result, List), Haskell examples, and practical code patterns
An Algebraic Theory of Music (reasonablypolymorphic.com). Explores an algebraic approach to music using Haskell, denotational design, and functional programming concepts like Voice, Music, and T-based harmony
🧩 Puzzles Combinatorics
BrainTwister #107: Prime products (enigmaticcode.wordpress.com). Prime products: explore Euler-like primes with product-plus-one using Python code and prime lists
Sphinx Cryptarithm #13 (enigmaticcode.wordpress.com). Puzzle-based cryptarithm solving with prime and square constraints using Python-based approach
Knight’s tour with fewest obtuse angles (johndcook.com). Knuth-era knight’s tour explores minimal obtuse angles, with a unique solution up to symmetry, by John D. Cook and Knuth
Hunting for extremal Latin squares using MaxSAT solver (yurichev.com). Hunting extremal Latin squares with MaxSAT, LS repair, and random walk using UWrMaxSat in Python-like workflows
Menger's Horse Enclosure (buttondown.com/jaffray). Graph theory game analysis: Menger's theorem, vertex cuts, and puzzle design notes in a browser-based horse enclosure
Overlapping rectangle puzzle (leancrew.com). Overlapping rectangle puzzle analyzed with a per-rectangle intersection code and network-style reasoning, plus a real-world SciAm solution
🧰 Mathy Software Builds
2026 (mathr.co.uk). Counting hyperforests on unlabeled nodes with incidence-graph forests using C++23 and 2026 OEIS data
Contours (bit-101.com). Generating contour lines from height maps using CONREC in Go, with path simplification and per-level styling
Some stories from developing puzlink.js (blog.cjquines.com). CJ Quines discusses and experiments with puzlink.js, its utilities, statistics concepts, client-side word relationships, and math ideas in a puzzle-hunt tooling project
Scaling Nektar++ to 65K CPUs on ARCHER2 (nektar.info). Nektar++ performance on ARCHER2 using VelocityCorrectionScheme, IMEX2, AVX2, HDF5 I/O, and strong scaling from 2k to 65k CPUs
Invertible Bloom antimatroids (11011110.github.io). Invertible Bloom antimatroids, ready lists, and peeling sequences on invertible Bloom filters and lookups with constant-time readiness criteria
🤖 ML Theory Lenses
Robustness, interpretability, and scaling of eigenvalue models (alexshtf.github.io). Robustness, interpretability, and scaling of eigenvalue models using PyTorch on real data (California Housing), examining spectral bounds and feature importance
Semantic Topological Spaces (lesswrong.com). Topological thinking on semantic spaces in neural nets; discusses projection, folding, and interpretability across input, latent, and output spaces
The Transformer as Renormalization Group Flow (symmetrybroken.com). Transformer attention as a Bayesian RG flow: coarse-graining tokens to semantic attractors using neural networks, physics-inspired interpretation
The Physics of mHC: Why Deep Learning Needs Energy Conservation (toooold.com). Conservation-inspired mHC uses doubly stochastic matrices and Sinkhorn iterations to build energy-conservative neural layers in Python-like reasoning
Human embeddings (trfetzer.com). Explores human embeddings for team design using 1024D vector space, open-source embeddings, GPT-OSS, and clustering to form diverse groups
📐 Analysis Mechanics
Linkage (11011110.github.io). Overview of computational geometry, symplectic integrators, and graph theory topics and tools mentioned
log2(3) and log2(5) (johndcook.com). Explores rational approximations of log2(3) and log2(5) via continued fractions and precision limits
Fourier Polynomials (pgadey.ca). Explores Fourier Polynomials and related concepts, with notes on implementation and tools used in mathematical programming
Modelling a Spring System in Hamiltonian Mechanics (ritog.github.io). Model a spring system in Python using Hamiltonian mechanics, Euler and semi-implicit Euler integration, and visualize phase space trajectories
✅ Proofs Verification
Is hallucination-free AI code possible? (kucharski.substack.com). Explores how to verify AI-generated code using Lean proofs, code checks, and qualitative validations across gravity models and beyond
Seemingly impossible programs in Lean (joachim-breitner.de). Lean, Cantor sequences, modulus predicates, and Escardo-inspired find in Lean with termination tricks
Proving liveness with TLA (roscidus.com). Proving liveness with TLAPS and TLA+ Toolbox; modeling a vchan channel in Xen, using TLC, PTL, and temporal logic concepts
Comment prouver que j'ai vu la fin de la série sans te spoiler ? (newsletter.lescryptosdecaro.com). Zero-knowledge proofs explained via spoiler-free analogy, covering ZK-Rollups, private transactions, DID, and anonymous DAO voting
AI and Research Papers (blog.computationalcomplexity.org). AI disruption in academia rethinks writing, review, verification, collaboration, and LaTeX generation for research papers
🧠 Abstract Structures
The Axiom Engine: A Phenomenology of Abstract Structures (cafebedouin.org). Phenomenology of abstract structures exploring topology, number theory, statistics, set theory, dynamics, group theory, dynamics and game theory through narrative metaphors
Coxeter and Dynkin Diagrams (golem.ph.utexas.edu). Coxeter and Dynkin diagrams overview, with ADE classifications and connections to Lie theory, quivers and representation theory
Axiom J in Homotopy Type Theory (HoTT) (blueberrywren.dev). HoTT axiom J explained via cubical type theory, using P, Sigma types, and contractibility to justify path induction in J
Polynomial towers and inverse Gowers theory for bounded-exponent groups (terrytao.wordpress.com). Tao, Jamneshan, and Shalom present a polynomial-tower inverse Gowers theory for bounded-exponent finite abelian groups
Anthropomorphizing the Russell paradox (infinitelymore.xyz). Cantor’s diagonalization and Russell paradox explored via anthropomorphized proofs with Hamkins and Lex Fridman
📚 Academic Research
The least prime with a given cycle type (arxiv:math). Gives zero-free, character-theoretic bounds for the smallest unramified prime with specified Frobenius cycle type. Delivers uniform exponential-in-n exponents for S_n, sharpening Chebotarev-type results across groups
Averages of Arithmetic Functions over Conductors of Function Fields (arxiv:math). Counts regular Galois extensions of F_q(t) with fixed group and one ramified place, advancing Boston–Markin. Uses braid-group homology and braided vector spaces to compute averages
Configuration Spaces of Finite Representation Type Algebras (arxiv:math). Associates an irreducible, rationally parametrized affine variety to any finite representation type algebra. Links string integrals, Jasso reduction, and new Rogers dilogarithm identities beyond Dynkin
LeanCat: A Benchmark Suite for Formal Category Theory in Lean (Part I: 1-Categories) (arxiv:cs). LeanCat provides 100 formal category-theory tasks in Lean to measure abstraction and library reasoning. Baselines reveal large gaps; retrieval aids modestly, guiding next-generation theorem-proving systems
EternalMath: A Living Benchmark of Frontier Mathematics that Evolves with Human Discovery (arxiv:cs). EternalMath automatically converts recent research papers into executable, verifiable math problems, creating a living benchmark. Shows frontier reasoning remains unsolved for LLMs, and constantly updates
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