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- Well Temperaments (Part 5) https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2024/02/19/well-temperaments-part-5/ 9 comments
- The Color of Infinite Temperature https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2022/01/16/the-color-of-infinite-temperature/ 2 comments
- The Triassic-Jurassic Extinction https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2023/09/16/the-triassic-jurassic-extinction-event/ 43 comments
- The Expansion of the Universe https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2021/04/09/the-expansion-of-the-universe/ 63 comments
- Ramanujan's Easiest Formula https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2020/11/18/ramanujans-easiest-formula/ 63 comments
- Exponential Discounting https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2020/10/25/exponential-discounting/ 5 comments
- Entropy in the Universe https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2020/01/25/entropy-in-the-universe/ 55 comments
- Applied Category Theory https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2018/03/26/seven-sketches-in-compositionality/ 40 comments
- Pyrofex https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2018/02/04/pyrofex/ 8 comments
- Computing the Uncomputable https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2016/04/02/computing-the-uncomputable/ 23 comments
- Interview with John Carlos Baez https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2016/03/18/interview-part-1/ 3 comments
- Good News, Part 1 https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2015/12/24/good-news-part-1/ 13 comments
- 42 http://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2013/05/25/42/ 58 comments
- Lynn Margulis, 1938–2011 http://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2011/11/24/lynn-margulis-1938-2011/ 13 comments
- John Baez: Green Mathematics http://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2011/03/04/network-theory-part-1/ 7 comments
- The secret story behind Hardy, Ramanujan and Taxi No. 1729 https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2022/01/30/hardy-ramanujan-and-taxi-no-1729/ 47 comments math
- On John Baez' blog: Bigness (Part 1). "[T]he definition of the number 1 in Bourbaki’s 1954 text on set theory requires 4,523,659,424,929 symbols and also 1,179,618,517,981 links connecting symbols" https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2020/04/13/bigness-part-1/ 80 comments math
- Applied Category Theory 2020 — Adjoint School https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2019/12/23/applied-category-theory-2020-adjoint-school/ 5 comments haskell
- Computing the Uncomputable: Joel David Hamkins showed how any function can be computed if a non-standard model of Peano arithmetic is assumed. (2016) https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2016/04/02/computing-the-uncomputable/ 11 comments math
- Applied Category Theory Course https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2018/03/26/seven-sketches-in-compositionality/ 8 comments haskell
- How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Algebraic Geometry https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2019/03/15/algebraic-geometry/ 38 comments math
- 5/8 Theorem: an interesting relation between Abelian Groups and probability two random elements commute. https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2018/09/16/the-5-8-theorem/ 49 comments math
- Patterns That Eventually Fail https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2018/09/20/patterns-that-eventually-fail/ 5 comments math
- Blog post: "Large Countable Ordinals" (part 1 of 3) https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2016/06/29/large-countable-ordinals-part-1/ 4 comments math
- Applied Category Theory – Online Course https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2018/03/26/seven-sketches-in-compositionality/ 29 comments haskell
- "Vladimir Voevodsky, 1966 — 2017" by John Baez https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2017/10/06/vladimir-voevodsky-1966-2017/ 9 comments math
- John Baez on Busy Beavers https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2016/05/21/the-busy-beaver-game/ 13 comments math
- Pi and the Golden Ratio https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2017/03/07/pi-and-the-golden-ratio/ 37 comments math
- A quirky function https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2016/06/25/a-quirky-function/ 75 comments math
- Computing the Uncomputable: Joel David Hamkins showed how any function can be computed if a non-standard model of Peano arithmetic is assumed. Results like this give me a deep respect for number theory as foundational. https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2016/04/02/computing-the-uncomputable/ 14 comments math
- Computing the Uncomputable: "[Joel David] Hamkins showed there's a Turing machine that [...] can compute the uncomputable... but only in some weird "alternative universe" where the natural numbers aren't what we think they are." https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2016/04/02/computing-the-uncomputable/ 74 comments compsci
- Interview with John Baez (UC Riverside professor; studies mathematical physics, category theory, math and the environment) https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2016/03/18/interview-part-1/ 6 comments math
- Planets in the Fourth Dimension -- Why do planets move in ellipses? Because they're moving in circles in 4 dimensions, so their 'shadows' in 3 dimensions go around in ellipses! https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2015/03/17/planets_in_the_4th_dimension/ 71 comments math
- Noether's Theorem: Quantum vs Stochastic http://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2014/05/03/noethers-theorem-quantum-vs-stochastic/ 12 comments math
- Learning Maths: Levels of Excellence http://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2013/09/29/levels-of-excellence/ 3 comments math
- John Baez writes about the relationship between Pascal's triangle, e, triangular numbers, superfactorials, and the Glaisher–Kinkelin constant https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2014/02/12/triangular-numbers/ 10 comments math
- Four puzzles about areas http://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2014/01/12/geometry-puzzles/ 7 comments math
- 42 http://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2013/05/25/42/ 40 comments math
- Enormous integers http://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2012/04/24/enormous-integers/ 40 comments programming
- Probability Puzzles - Bayesian vs. frequentist interpretations of probability theory. http://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2010/08/24/probability-puzzles-from-egan/ 47 comments math