David Bessis

Letter to a PhD student

What's the point of intellectual work, if AGI is around the corner?

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Attention is all we have

A conjectural theory of cognitive inequality

Feb 3 • David Bessis

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December 2025

Thinking fast, slow, and super slow

How mathematicians train their intuition

Dec 18, 2025 • David Bessis

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Twins reared apart do not exist

The shaky science of genetic determinism

Dec 5, 2025 • David Bessis

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November 2025

The curious case of broken theorems

Mathematics shouldn't survive logical errors—yet it does

Nov 14, 2025 • David Bessis

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September 2025

Writing is hard — and it should be

The excruciating art of clarifying your mind

Sep 15, 2025 • David Bessis

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June 2025

Genes can't explain genius

The mathematical structure of cognitive inequality

Jun 15, 2025 • David Bessis

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May 2025

Paperback is in! — a cryptographic giveaway

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

May 15, 2025 • David Bessis

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April 2025

The magic of mathematical intuition

Why the math you do understand feels stupidly easy

Apr 17, 2025 • David Bessis

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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, 2025 • David Bessis

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February 2025

The real mathematics is the one that we dream

The ancient taboo at the heart of rationality

Feb 19, 2025 • David Bessis

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January 2025

Beyond nature and nurture

How mathematics changed my view on talent

Jan 9, 2025 • David Bessis

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