Archive - David Bessis

Why genes can't explain genius

The mathematical structure of cognitive inequality

Jun 15 •

May 2025

Paperback is in! — a cryptographic giveaway

Win a signed copy of Mathematica: A Secret World of Intuition and Curiosity

May 15 •

April 2025

The magic of mathematical intuition

Why the math you do understand feels stupidly easy

Apr 17 •

March 2025

"I am struggling to think who would want to read this book"

The reader report that could have killed my book, and proved it right

Mar 20 •

February 2025

The real mathematics is the one that we dream

The ancient taboo at the heart of rationality

Feb 19 •

January 2025

Beyond nature and nurture

How mathematics changed my view on talent

Jan 9 •

December 2024

A visual companion to the audio edition of Mathematica

The full set of illustrations and tables from the print edition

Dec 3, 2024 •

November 2024

We've been wrong about math for 2300 years

A radical conceptualist take on the foundations of mathematics

Nov 20, 2024 •

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