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...

A comment at this post from the Secret Blogging Seminar, signed "estraven", said that since the Fields Medal is awarded every four years, and only to people under 40, birthdate modulo 4 is relevant.There's an easy explanation, if tr...

After the original Secret Russian Seminars, there’d usually be post-seminar beer. Since a few of us, and perhaps some readers too, are in Washington DC at the moment for the Joint Mathematics Meeting, it seems appropriate to have a ...

David Speyer gives a nice introduction to the representations of GL(n) at the Secret Blogging Seminar.

Based on the extensive discussion at the Secret Blogging Seminar on tools for long-distance collaborations, Scott Morrison writes an introduction to source control with subversion for research collaborators. In this post, Scott al...

I seem, lately, to be so densely planned that all I can do for my blog is to react on blog posts from Ben Webster at the Secret Blogging Seminar. He has, recently, written a post inspired by the xkcd comic on purity in the sciences...

Noah Snyder over at Secret Blogging Seminar points out one of the unreported pitfalls of blogging: your colleagues know what you're doing ! More importantly, they know that you're not doing the work you're supposed to be doing wi...