Wednesday, February 18, 2026

Joe Halpern (1953-2025)

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Computer Science Professor Joseph Halpern passed away on Friday after a long battle with cancer. He was a leader in the mathematical reason...
Sunday, February 15, 2026

Assigning Open Problems in Class

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I sometimes assign open problems as extra credit problems. Some thoughts: 1) Do you tell the students the problems are open? YES- it would b...
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Thursday, February 12, 2026

The Future of Mathematics and Mathematicians

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A reader worried about the future. I am writing this email as a young aspiring researcher/scientist. We live in a period of uncertainty and ...
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Sunday, February 08, 2026

I used to think historians in the future will have too much to work with. I could be wrong

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 (I thought I had already posted this but the blogger system we use says I didn't. Apologies if I did. Most likely is that I posted some...
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Wednesday, February 04, 2026

Sampling the Oxford CS Library

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Wandering around maze known as the Computer Science building at Oxford I found the computer science library. Rarely these days do you see a ...
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Sunday, February 01, 2026

Before the ChatGPT-HW debate there were other ``If students use X to do their HW'' debates

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Lance and I had a blog-debate about  What to do about students using ChatGPT to do their Homework . Some commenters pointed out that we'...
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Wednesday, January 28, 2026

The Fighting Temeraire (Re)visited

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The Fighting Temeraire by JWM Turner A year ago I wrote about an experiment I ran to learn about the modern period of art from ChatGPT. Cha...
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Saturday, January 24, 2026

Online Talks on Accessible Theorems!

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Bogdan Grechuk has written a book Landscapes of 21st Century Mathematics that came out in 2021. There is a revised version coming out soon....
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