Sabine Hossenfelder’s latest video argues There’s no reason for nature to be pretty (5:00) Working on a theory of everything is a mistake because we don’t understand quantum ...

There’s a new book out this week, a biography of Roger Penrose by Patchen Barss, with the title The Impossible Man: Roger Penrose and the cost of genius. Penrose is one of the greatest figures in ...

Curt Jaimungal has a piece out, an interview with Lenny Susskind, with the title The Crisis in String Theory is Worse Than You Think…. Some of what Susskind has to say is the same as in his recent ...

I grew up in the 1960s and 70s, at a time when fundamental physics was making huge dramatic progress and Western democracies were changing in equally dramatic ways, mostly for the better. It truly did ...

November 18th, 2024. University of Michigan. Group, Lie, and Number Theory seminar, 60 minutes : p-adic L-functions for P-ordinary Hida families on unitary groups. November 14th, 2024. University of ...

The goal of this seminar is to understand Scholze's recent work on the geometrization of the real local Langlands program.

“The 13th Proof that n!/(k!(n-k)!)<=n!/((k+1)!(n-k-1)!) (if k<n/2)”. Mar. 10: Pengfei Guan (McGill) ...

If a post-truth field of science is going to keep going, it needs to convince funders and the public that progress is being made, so there’s a continual need for people uninterested in truth ...

Edward Frenkel has a new Youtube show/podcast, entitled AfterMath. I gather that part of the concept here is a follow-on to his book Love and Math, but in this different format. He’s always ...

Abstract: Nonlinear elliptic equations describe the stationary states of numerous systems in physics, biology and medicine. Qualitative properties such as monotonicity, symmetry, stability or ...