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Writing is hard — and it should be
The excruciating art of clarifying your mind
Sep 15 • 
David Bessis

June 2025

Genes can't explain genius
The mathematical structure of cognitive inequality
Jun 15 • 
David Bessis

May 2025

Paperback is in! — a cryptographic giveaway
Win a signed copy of Mathematica: A Secret World of Intuition and Curiosity
May 15 • 
David Bessis

April 2025

The magic of mathematical intuition
Why the math you do understand feels stupidly easy
Apr 17 • 
David Bessis

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 • 
David Bessis

February 2025

The real mathematics is the one that we dream
The ancient taboo at the heart of rationality
Feb 19 • 
David Bessis

January 2025

Beyond nature and nurture
How mathematics changed my view on talent
Jan 9 • 
David Bessis

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 • 
David Bessis

November 2024

We've been wrong about math for 2300 years
A radical conceptualist take on the foundations of mathematics
Nov 20, 2024 • 
David Bessis
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