Subscribe in seconds and receive Not Even Wrong's news feed updates in your inbox, on your phone or even read them from your own news page here on follow.it.
You can select the updates using tags or topics and you can add as many websites to your feed as you like.
And the service is entirely free!
Follow Not Even Wrong: Department of Mathematics at Columbia University - Welcome
Is this your feed? Claim it!
I’ve been working recently on trying to understand exactly how Wick rotation works in two-dimensional conformal field theory. There is an analog there of some of the issues with Wick rotation of spinors and twistors in four dimensions that I’ve been struggling with.
One of the few times I’ve tried to get help from an AI agent, I asked it to point me to discussions of ...
The first surprise of this afternoon was finally finding an informed and sensible discussion of the implications of AI agents for hep-th research, in the form of a twitter thread by stringking42069.
The second was learning from the twitter thread about Xi ...
Warning: if you follow this blog, you’ve heard this many times before, so can move on to something more interesting now.
There’s a video conversation between Brian Greene and Lenny Susskind from last week here. At 44:02, Susskind has this to say:
One of...
There’s a remarkable new book out about the life and work of Andreas Floer, entitled The Floer Jungle, co-written by writer Siobhan Roberts (author of some great biographies of mathematicians) and mathematician Helmut Hofer. Hofer has also given talks recently covering the material in...
The big AI/math news is the release today of the Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics. It’s an excellent attempt to identify the new threats to the intellectual culture of the mathematics community and begin a discussion of what to do about them. For some discussio...