There’s a new book out this week, a biography of Roger Penrose by Patchen Barss, with the title The Impossible Man: Roger Penrose and the cost of genius. Penrose is one of the greatest figures in ...

Working on a theory of everything is a mistake because we don’t understand quantum mechanics (8:00). These are just wrong: nature is both pretty and described by deep mathematics. Furthermore, quantum ...

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Gingrich was doing what he was doing to save the republic, Kaku to pursue the dreams of Einstein, but both had enthusiastically entered a post-truth environment. Over the last decade or two, things ...

Professor A.J. de Jong, Columbia university, Department of Mathematics. One might say: an explanation serves to remove or to avert a misunderstanding---one, that is, that would occur but for the ...

Curt Jaimungal has a piece out, an interview with Lenny Susskind, with the title The Crisis in String Theory is Worse Than You Think…. Some of what Susskind has to say is the same as in his recent ...

Professor A.J. de Jong, Columbia university, Department of Mathematics. This semester I am not running my graduate student seminar. To find the webpages for the previous semesters, please visit this ...

This is a listing of Columbia University probability seminars. All times are displayed in your local time. All previous listings are shown here.

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