Sunday, August 16, 2026

IIT is the canary in the coalmine (Do our younger readers know what that means? Do we have younger readers?)

›
Lance has posted about his, and around 160 others, being laid off from IIT  here .(IIT stands for Illinois Institute of Technology which is ...
12 comments:
Wednesday, August 12, 2026

Unexpected Unemployment

›
Enjoying Idaho while ignoring Illinois Today is the first day of my life that I am unemployed. And not by choice. As I mentioned on LinkedIn...
19 comments:
Sunday, August 09, 2026

Math Concepts With Funny Names

›
(Some of this came from a Reddit post  I read, and some of  the comments on it.)  Here are theorems with names that I think are funny or unu...
8 comments:
Sunday, August 02, 2026

A problematic category on Jeopardy Raises a Good Question

›
I was watching a Jeopardy from 2004 (The Game Show Channel is rerunning Ken Jennings streak) and the following question raises a good questi...
5 comments:
Sunday, July 26, 2026

Would Erdos have been happy with the resolution of the Erdos Unit Distance Problem? How to find out?

›
Let's say there is a statement in math T that you wonder whether it's true or false.  You may even make a conjecture of which way it...
12 comments:
Wednesday, July 22, 2026

Complexity Class of the Week: \(L_2^P\)

›
Back in the 90s when I was a young professor at the University of Chicago, we would have a Complexity Class of the Week  where I would take ...
1 comment:
Sunday, July 19, 2026

Bipartite Perfect Matching in Deterministic NC

›
Nutan Limaye and Thore Husfeldt guest post on the new deterministic parallel algorithm for bipartite perfect matching by Abhranil Chatterje...
8 comments:
Wednesday, July 15, 2026

Herman Chernoff (1923-2026)

›
Herman Chernoff passed away on July 6, 5 days after turning 103. Ravi Boppana wrote a guest post about Chernoff's life for his 100th b...