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If I had to choose just one blog or a twitter account for that hypothetical deserted island question(what is the one x-item you'd choose if stranded on a desert
by yantrams 8y ago
If I had to choose just one blog or a twitter account for that hypothetical deserted island question(what is the one x-item you'd choose if stranded on a deserted island?), it would be that of John Baez without a second thought. His personal blog and tweets are absolute treasure troves for anyone interested in Math.
https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com
https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez https://twitter.com/johncarlosbaez
The recent breakthrough in finding the smallest Lebesgue cover [1] was triggered by one of his blog posts about it a few years back.
1 -- https://www.quantamagazine.org/amateur-mathematician-finds-smallest-universal-cover-20181115/ https://www.quantamagazine.org/amateur-mathematician-finds-s...
- robinhouston 8y agoGreg Egan’s recent breakthrough on the minimal superpermutation problem was also inspired by one of John Baez’s tweets.
- intuitionist 8y agoreal heads will remember his proto-blog, “This Week’s Finds in Mathematical Physics,” which goes all the way back to 1995: http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/TWF.html http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/TWF.html
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