nLab math blogs

• Joel David Hamkins “mathematics and philosophy of the infinite”, foundations

• Logic ForAll by Valeria de Paiva

• Lovely little lemmas by Remy van Dobben de Bruyn

• mathbabe Blog on mathematical finance by former academic

• Mathblogging.com A compilation of math blogs sorted according to genre including the “weekly pics” of the hosts: Felix Breuer, Frederik von Heymann, and Peter Krautzberger

• math for love Blog of mathematics education consultants includes puzzles, teaching tips, and philosophical musings

• Mathematics and Computation (Andrej Bauer, includes also topology and foundations–last update July 2011)

• Mathematics Under the Microscope (Alexandre Borovik)

• Mathematics without Apologies (Michael Harris)

• Mathlinks / Art of Problem Solving community, math olympiad style problems discussed

• Mathlog (in German, variety of topics from Open Access journals to Klein groups and geometry)

• Math Vault (Everything higher mathematics: college math, calculus, linear algebra, logic, probability, statisitcs, proof-based math, educational technology and learning)

• neverendingbooks (Lieven le Bruyn)

• Noncommutative Geometry (Connes, Khalkhali…)

• Nuit Blanche (data/imager/sensory compression, pattern recognition, networking, internet, AI/machine learning, neuroscience)

• Oscar Cunningham’s Blog (Category theory, nontrivial trivialities)

• Peter Cameron’s Blog notes on group theory, graph theory, number theory, and combinatorics

• Phd plus Epsilon Adriana Salerno reflects on her life as a junior faculty member at a Liberal Arts college

• Proof Math is Beautiful Beautiful images of mathematical interest.

• Quomodocumque University professor Jordan Ellenberg’s blog

• Shadows of Simplicity - notes on analytic, algebraic, geometric, and topological enumerative combinatorics, fractional and operational calculus, and umbral calculus

• SymOmega (root systems, Weyl groups, buildings, algebraic groups…)

• Tanya Khovanova’s math blog Light musings, puzzles and anecdotes concerning mathematics

• theHigherGeometer (David Roberts)

• The n-Category Café A group blog on math, physics and philosophy written by (currently) seven people and affiliated with this wiki

• Three-Toed Sloth (Cosma Shalizi: books, science, automata, complex networks, stochastic processes, numerics and simulation, arts, literature, politics)

• Transcendence A math blog by whzecomjm covering Algebra, Number Theory etc. in Chinese.

• Vi Hart’s blog Great videos and photos of mathematical art and story-telling

• What’s new (Terence Tao)

• XOR’s hammer (logics and foundations)

Older Blogs (last entry is over a year old)

• Annoying Precision by Qiaochu Yuan (algebra, representation theory, combinatorics, abstract nonsense, arithmetics)

• Ars Mathematica (analysis, probability…) - last updated in 2015

• category theory at community.livejournal (in Russian)

• Climbing Mount Bourbaki (Akhil Mathew: Lie algebras, differential and algebraic geometry…) - last updated in 2013

• Concrete Nonsense A group blog on combinatorics, Lie algebras, representation theory, algebraic geometry – last update 2015

• CSE Blog - quant, math, computer science puzzles ~ 250 Quant, Math & Computer Science Puzzles for Interview Preparation & Brain Teasing

• Delta Epsilons A group blog focusing on algebra, representation theory, and Olympiad-style problem-solving –last update August 2010

• degrees of freedom Math and Physics blog of Scientific American written by Davide Castelvecchi - last updated 2012

• Embûches tissues (computational algebraic geometry, commutative algebra) – last update March 2010

• Evolutionblog Mathematics and Politics blog by a college professor

• FFF Forking, Forcing and back&Forthing – a blog by 10 model theorists - last updated in 2013

• Geometric Group Theory (structured text with theorems, proofs and exercises in GGT) – last updated August 2009

• Geometry and combinatorics (Konrad Swanepoel) - last updated 2014

• Geometry and the Imagination (Danny Calegari: hyperbolic geometry, geometric group theory…)

• God plays dice and previous location (probability, combinatorics, puzzles, financial math)

• Höchste Zeit, unsern Kurs zu ändern – model theory of fields and commutative algebra

• IMU - Journals blog on mathematical journals

• Konrad Volkel blog (cohomology, geometry, topology); has also nice math resource list - blog last updated in 2015

• Le Petit Chercheur Illustré (Signal processing and applied math, compressed sensing and inverse problems, random embeddings)

• Low Dimensional Topology group blog by Ryan Budney, Nathan Dunfield, Jesse Johnson, Daniel Moskovich and Henry Wilton

• Martin’s Blog Martin Orr: algebraic geometry especially abelian varieties, Galois representations

• Math-Blog (6 people blog: math books, university math, popular math etc.)

• Mathcraft Math-inspired artwork and how-to info

• Math Goes Pop! UCLA grad student writes about math in the media and pop culture

• Mathlight’s blog (Zoran Škoda, noncommutative and derived geometry, mathematical physics, sci publishing)

• Math Monday The Museum of Mathematics will open in 2012 – this blog details its progress and fun math projects

• Mathematical Formalities This blog is written by Sanath Devalapurkar, presenting some of his ideas and thoughts on (higher) category theory and $K$-theory.

• Mathematical Musings (Interactions of probability, statistical physics, topology, and combinatorics. Matthew Kahle)

• Math Section ETH Zurich Master’s degree student writes about applications of mathematics in everyday life

• Maxwell’s Demon (Edmund Harriss: vizualizing math and math art, building math sculptures)

• Misapplied Math (Math (mainly statistics, probability, and stochastic control), data science, and CS)

• Motivic Stuff (Andreas Holmstrom writes on Cohomology, homotopy theory, and arithmetic geometry; see also the related Cohomology Theory Database by the same author)

• Musings Mathematical and Otherwise (Edward Hughes - Algebraic Geometry and String Theory)

• My research in geometry (Aleks Kleyn)

• NAPmath - math and technology in education

• Nathaniel Johnston’s Blog (PhD student in quantum information – last update July 2011)

• Nikita Markarian’s mathblog (derived algebraic geometry, dg-, $L_\infty, A_\infty, G_\infty$-algebras, operads, TQFT, BV formalism, Hochschild and cyclic (co)homology…–last updated July 2011)

• Noncommutative geometry with point, by a grad student at Kansas–last updated September 2010

• NUMBERPLAY A New York Times blog on math/numeric puzzles by Pradeep Mutalik

• Paramanand’s Math Notes A math blog by Paramanand Singh covering Algebra, Number Theory, Mathematical Analysis, Geometry among other topics

• Political Math Visualization of political information

• Pronunciation of Mathematicians’ Names A blog about how to pronounce famous mathematicians’ names.

• QED Insight (by Santo D’Agostino; mathematics, physics, education, pitched mainly to high school and undergraduate university students and teachers, with some material for lay people as well)

• qrazydragon (math, books, internet, in Russian)

• Reverberations in Mathematics (My Journey into Higher Mathematics - Julian Rachman

• Rigorous Trivialities (a group blog - mainly algebraic geometry, including well-organized introductory notes algebraic geometry from the beginning – last updated 2015)

• Secret Blogging Seminar run by 8 recent Berkeley Ph.D. graduates. “Sort of like a seminar, but with (even) more rude commentary from the audience.”

• Sketches of Topology (colorful pictures, “visualizations of low dimensional topology”)

• The accidental mathematician (Izabella Laba: personal blog of a math professor, various topics, rarely even math)

• The Everything Seminar (“Geometry, topology, categories, groups, physics”; recently lots about experimental particle physics: LHC and CMS)

• The Math Less Travelled Expository writing aimed to expose the beauty of mathematics to a general audience

• The Numbers Guy Wall Street Journal’s math/economics blog by Carl Bialik

• The Polymath Blog (Tim Gowers “polymath” group projects: number theory, polynomials, algorithms, complexity, …–last updated July 2011)

• The Unapologetic Mathematician (An expository “blath” by former academic John Armstrong) last updated in 2012

• The Rising Sea (Daniel Murfet, previous blog moved to more of a homepage format, with arXiv of neat LaTeX notes on algebraic geometry, triangulated categories, sheaves…)

• Theoretical atlas (Jeffrey Morton: groupoids, groupoidification, stacks, quantum physics, noncommutative geometry)

• Things of interest (Mathematica visualisations, puzzles)

• Todd and Vishal’s blog–last updated January 2011

• Uncover a few New blog of problems and teaching ideas

• Victor Porton’s math blog (filters, posets, funcoids and reloids), abundant with self-centric claims of importance

• Vivatsgasse 7 (Max Planck Bonn graduate students– last update November 2007)

• Wiskundemeisjes (A blog about mathematics for a general audience, written by Jeanine Daems and Ionica Smeets, in Dutch)

Probability and Statistics

Blogs

• Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference and Social Science

• The Endeavour

Wikis

• Wikitistics - Statistics Wiki

Math-related

Blogs

• Mathematics in Australia

• Out of print math

• Wild About Math

• Mental Maths Games For 11 Year Olds

• Sage: Open Source Mathematical Software

• Transient Dynamic (A blog on next-gen computational tools for mathematical modeling in complex systems, especially dynamical systems models)

Technical help with math blogs

• Luca Trevisan’s LaTeX to Wordpress converter

• This nifty script fixes the eyestrain caused by poorly designed blog contrasts. 15 seconds to install, works for Firefox only.

• Detexify for finding LaTeX symbols by drawing them.

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