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David Bessis

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MathScience

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15 from 20 Nov 2024 to 21 Apr 2026
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monthly (6 in the last year)
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2026 3

  1. The fall of the theorem economy
  2. Letter to a PhD student
  3. Attention is all we have

2025 10

  1. Thinking fast, slow, and super slow
  2. Twins reared apart do not exist
  3. The curious case of broken theorems
  4. Writing is hard — and it should be
  5. Genes can't explain genius
  6. Paperback is in! — a cryptographic giveaway
  7. The magic of mathematical intuition
  8. "I am struggling to think who would want to read this book"
  9. The real mathematics is the one that we dream
  10. Beyond nature and nurture

2024 2

  1. A visual companion to the audio edition of Mathematica
  2. We've been wrong about math for 2300 years