Where are All the Math Blogs?

I know Good Math, Bad Math. And of course there’s this blog. And there are many other small math blogs – Integrating the Derivative, Polymath, Halfway There, ChapterZero, Exponential Curve, Kitchen Table Math, and Casting Out Nines, to name a few. I’m not sure if Not Even Wrong is a math blog or a physics blog.

But I don’t know of any really big math blogs except Good Math, Bad Math. If anyone knows any, please do tell me about them… I’m always looking for good mathematical conversations.

15 Responses to Where are All the Math Blogs?

  1. coturnix says:

    Here’s one I can think of off the top of my head:
    http://talldarkandmysterious.ca/

  2. Alon Levy says:

    I know about that one (in fact, I used to comment on it). I didn’t list it because Moebius Stripper hasn’t updated it in months.

  3. SLC says:

    How about Rosenhouses’ blog?

  4. Jason says:

    Actually my blog doesn’t have anything to do with math. I just liked the name.

  5. Alon Levy says:

    I’m not familiar with the blog you’re talking about, SLC. Can you give me a link?

  6. SLC says:

    http://www.scienceblogs.com/evolutionblog/

    Don’;t let the evolutionblog identification fool you. Dr. Rosenhouse is an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Va.

  7. Robert says:

    Thanks for the link, first of all. Second of all, there aren’t a lot of blogs about mathematics itself out there that one would consider “big”. However, there are a lot of “big” blogs that talk about mathematics education to some extent. Go over to Education Wonks and check out their blogroll. (Or go to my blogroll — most of the “Education” blogs listed are actually by math educators.)

  8. Let’s see…. Talldarkandmysterious has , alas, more or less died. When it comes to nice (not necessarily big however) blogs, I have, however, apart from my own (shamelessblogwhoring)
    http://blog.mikael.johanssons.org
    also
    http://sigfpe.blogspot.com/
    http://david.efnet-math.org/
    http://gooseania.blogspot.com/
    http://talldarkandmysterious.ca/
    http://learningcurves.blogspot.com/
    http://3dpancakes.typepad.com/ernie/
    http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~dbindel/blog/
    http://math-teacher.blogspot.com/
    http://www.sixthform.info/maths/
    http://www.unimodular.net/blog/
    http://zenoferox.blogspot.com/
    http://www.plover.com/blog/
    http://www.arsmathematica.net/
    http://bit-player.org/
    http://therealsqrt.blogspot.com/
    http://www.scienceblogs.com/goodmath/
    http://www.virtualcourtney.com/
    http://polymathematics.typepad.com/
    http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/
    http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/
    http://www.maths.manchester.ac.uk/~avb/micromathematics/
    in my constant math-y rotation as well as
    http://epsilondelta.wordpress.com/
    http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~easwaran/blog/
    http://aida.homelinux.net/wordpress/
    http://sneezy.cs.nott.ac.uk/containers/blog/
    http://seejanecompute.blogspot.com/
    http://suburbdad.blogspot.com/
    http://thewayfaringstranger.blogspot.com/
    http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/
    in the rotation of “academic, but not necessarily very math-y”

    A few of these update close to daily (learningcurves most notable), some update at least weekly, and a few of them seem half-dead.

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  10. SK19 says:

    I’ve recently put up a math blog that is trying to address math concepts that typically give students the most difficulties. My website is http://sk19math.blogspot.com .

  11. Here’s a directory listing of some math blogs: http://blogs.botw.org/Science/Math/

  12. Matt Heath says:

    Fields medallist Terry Tao keeps a blog at http://terrytao.wordpress.com/ . It’s very good indeed.

  13. Crime Tutor says:

    Hi.

    This is a blog with math problems based centered around a central theme. Don’t take it too seriously, but it isn’t politically correct either. So, PLEASE don’t recommend it to K-12 students. The math involved ranges from algebra, to trigonometry, calculus, probability, to discrete mathematics. Basically, nothing higher than college sophomore level. It’s meant to be challenging but entertaining as well…if you have my sense of humor. 😉

    I hope you enjoy.

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