Perelman has been awarded the Millennium Prize. Press release from the Clay Math Institute.As Peter Woit points out, no mention of the fate of the million dollars....

The excellent physics-and-math blog Not Even Wrong, published by Columbia mathematician Peter Woit (who has a book with the same name as the blog), has an interesting post about an analysis of the job market in high-energy theoretic...

Via Peter Woit I see that there is a project to put the archives of Bourbaki online. These are the internal manuscripts that the group generated while writing their famous series of books.

A comment-thread well worth following while on vacation was Algebraic Geometry without Prime Ideals at the Secret Blogging Seminar. Peter Woit became lyric about it : My nomination for the all-time highest quality discussion ever...

There has been a fair amount of discussion of Graham Farmelo's The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom-- Peter Woit reviewed it on his blog, the New York Times reviewed it a couple of Sundays ago, Barnes...

What: A public presentation, "Not Even Wrong: The Failure of String Theory & the Continuing Challenge to Unify the Laws of Physics" Where: Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture, 53 Prospect Park West (corner of Prospect Park W...

Today on the arxiv Oswaldo Zapata wrote an essay on issues about fact and belief systems in superstring theory. Naturally, Peter Woit decided that this was really important and wrote a whole article about it. Here I will collect a f...

What: A public presentation, "Not Even Wrong: The Failure of String Theory & the Continuing Challenge to Unify the Laws of Physics" Where: Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture, 53 Prospect Park West (corner of Prospect Park W...

Till now, I have avoided to feed this flooding about abuses on Wikipedia. But I think that a few words are needed in order to clarify my position and to let my own point of view widely known. The problem started when Peter Woit took...

Peter Woit made an excellent point in the comments that I want to bring up to the main page and expand on: In math, a short-term increase in NSF funding of conferences and summer salary is hard to justify, but more money for postdo...

From a predictably-interesting article by Freeman Dyson in Notices of the AMS (hat tip to Peter Woit): The mathematicians discovered the central mystery of computability, the conjecture represented by the statement P is not equal to...

Peter Woit at Not Even Wrong points to a ranking which places “mathematician” at the top of the 200 best jobs list, and lumberjack at the bottom. Some closer inspection is called for. The income for a mathematician is listed as $94...

Just wanted to point out to everyone that Peter Woit, of the blog Not Even Wrong is doing a great job blogging on the relations between representation theory of Lie groups, functions on Lie groups and differential operators. And he...

Peter Woit observes that mathematicians and physicists had a prominent role to play in the current financial crises that threaten to take down the world’s banks. Stochastic calculus has become the main tool of evaluating financial ...

Some weeks ago Peter Woit of Not Even Wrong and Bee of Backreaction had a video-chat on all sorts of things (see the links above to see the whole clip) including the nine minute passage below on ‘the future of (science) blogs’. ...

Over at bloggingheads, they've posted a video conversation between Peter Woit of Not Even Wrong and Sabine Hossenfelder of Backreaction. They talk about string theory a bit, as you might imagine, but also about a wide range of issue...

Peter Woit quotes from a reminiscence by Peter Goddard from a physics conference in 1971: With great technical mastery, he was covering the board with special functions, doing manipulations that I knew from my studies with Alan W...