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Writing is hard — and it should be
The excruciating art of clarifying your mind
Sep 15
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June 2025
Genes can't explain genius
The mathematical structure of cognitive inequality
Jun 15
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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
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April 2025
The magic of mathematical intuition
Why the math you do understand feels stupidly easy
Apr 17
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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
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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
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January 2025
Beyond nature and nurture
How mathematics changed my view on talent
Jan 9
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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
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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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