Math blogs

Scott Aaronson, a theoretical computer scientist, writes about quantum computing, computational complexity, and related questions.

Top post: Quantum supremacy, now with BosonSampling

John D. Cook, a consultant in applied math and statistics, writes short posts on numerical computing, probability, and programming.

Top post: Opening Black Boxes

Stephen Wolfram, founder of Wolfram Research, writes long essays on computation, physics, machine learning, ChatGPT, and his personal productivity setup.

Top post: What Is ChatGPT Doing and Why Does It Work? (2023)

A network of science bloggers, including Good Math, Bad Math and Pharyngula, covering math, biology, computing, and pseudoscience.

Top post: Strange Loops: Ken Thompson and the Self-referencing C Compiler

Fields medalist Terence Tao writes about mathematics, research practice, formal proofs in Lean, and how to think about the subject.

Top post: Does one have to be a genius to do maths?

Andrew Gelman and colleagues at Columbia write about statistics, causal inference, research misconduct, and replication problems in social science.

Top post: Concerns with that Stanford antibody study of coronavirus prevalence

John Baez, a mathematical physicist, writes expository pages on math and physics, including relativity, topology, and the Crackpot Index.

Top post: The Crackpot Index

Kalid Azad writes math tutorials that build intuition for topics like Fourier transforms, linear algebra, Bayes' theorem and Euler's formula.

Top post: An Interactive Guide to the Fourier Transform (2012)

Mark Dominus writes The Universe of Discourse, covering math, programming, languages, and miscellaneous curiosities since 2006.

Top post: Monads are like burritos (2009)

Evan Miller is a programmer and statistician who writes about applied math, A/B testing, ranking systems and user ratings.

Top post: How Not To Sort By Average Rating

Steven Wittens writes about 3D graphics, WebGL, math visualization and web technology, with interactive demos.

Top post: How to Fold a Julia Fractal

Tyler Vigen runs Spurious Correlations, a site charting unrelated data series that happen to track each other, such as cheese consumption and bedsheet deaths.

Top post: 15 Insane things that correlate with each other

Wolfram Research's blog on the Wolfram Language and Mathematica, with posts on features, data, and the company's licensing stance.

Top post: Why Wolfram tech isn’t open source (2019)

Nick Berry wrote DataGenetics, with math and data analyses of PIN numbers, puzzles, games, and QR codes.

Top post: Analysis of bank PIN numbers

Inigo Quilez, a computer graphics researcher and Shadertoy creator, writes on shaders, distance functions, fractals, and demoscene techniques.

Top post: Distance Functions in 3D Space

Michael Nielsen, a physicist and writer, explains topics like Bitcoin, Bloom filters, Lisp, and quantum computing in long essays.

Top post: If correlation doesn’t imply causation, then what does? (2012)

Andrew Gelman, a Columbia statistician, writes about statistical methods, flawed research, and problems in social science.

Top post: What has happened down here is the winds have changed

Amit Patel's site of interactive visual explanations of algorithms and math for game development, such as pathfinding, hex grids and noise.

Top post: Hexagonal grids for games

Bartosz Milewski writes about category theory for programmers, functional programming, C++, and concurrency, including a free book.

Top post: Category Theory for Programmers (2014)

Jeremy Kun writes on math for programmers, covering linear algebra, cryptography, and algorithms, and wrote a book on the subject.

Top post: Why there is no Hitchhiker’s Guide to Mathematics for Programmers

Dan Piponi (sigfpe) writes on Haskell, category theory, mathematics, and physics, drawing on his background in visual effects.

Top post: You Could Have Invented Monads (And Maybe You Already Have)

Richard Lipton and Ken Regan write on theoretical computer science, complexity theory including P vs NP, and obituaries of mathematicians.

Top post: Galactic Algorithms (2010)

Terence Tao, a mathematician, posts short notes on Mastodon about mathematics, AI tools, and automated proofs.

Top post: Homepage

John Baez, a mathematical physicist, writes on math, physics, category theory and complex systems on his Azimuth blog.

Top post: Computing the Uncomputable

Peter Woit, a mathematician at Columbia, writes the Not Even Wrong blog on physics, mathematics and critiques of string theory.

Top post: Not Even Wrong

Home page of Greg Egan, hard science fiction author, with fiction, math and physics explainers, and essays.

Top post: Google, the Stupidity Amplifier (2016)

Researcher Chris Olah writes illustrated explanations of neural networks, LSTMs, backpropagation, information theory, and representation learning.

Top post: Neural Networks, Manifolds, and Topology

Jake VanderPlas, an astronomer and Python data scientist, writes about Python performance, statistics, and plotting with Matplotlib.

Top post: Why Python Is Slow: Looking Under the Hood

Cosma Shalizi, a statistics professor at Carnegie Mellon, keeps a long-running personal site of notebooks, reviews and essays on statistics, science and society.

Top post: Review of A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram (2002)

Timothy Gowers, a Fields medalist mathematician, writes about mathematics, academic publishing, journal reform and AI's role in math research.

Top post: Discrete Analysis – A new type of math journal

A group blog by mathematicians and physicists, centered on category theory, with posts on logic, set theory, and related math.

Top post: From Set Theory To Type Theory (2013)

David MacKay, the late Cambridge physicist, wrote a free textbook on information theory, inference and learning algorithms, and made the Dasher text-entry tool.

Top post: Dasher

Andrew Gelman, a Columbia statistician, shares papers and book materials on Bayesian statistics, replication problems, and the philosophy of statistical practice.

Top post: The Garden of Forking Paths [pdf]

Donald Knuth's Stanford page hosts his writings, programs, lecture notes, and announcements on algorithms, TeX, literate programming, and his book series.

Top post: Email (let's drop the hyphen) (2003)

Revolution Analytics' blog on the R language, statistics, and data science, with news, tutorials, and examples.

Top post: The plural of anecdote is data, after all

A Medium blog that summarizes papers from the physics arXiv preprint server, with topics from quantum physics to statistics and computing.

Top post: Cause And Effect: A New Statistical Test That Can Tease Them Apart

Inference Review is a journal of long-form essays on mathematics, physics, science and history, written for an educated general audience.

Top post: Alexander Grothendieck: A Country Known Only by Name

Andrej Bauer, a mathematician, writes about constructive mathematics, computability, type theory, and functional programming.

Top post: Seemingly impossible functional programs (2007)

Jamis Buck, a programmer, writes about software and is best known for his series on maze-generation algorithms with demos.

Top post: Maze-generation algorithms, with JS demos

Jason Davies, a developer and data visualization specialist, builds interactive D3.js demos of maps, curves, algorithms and math patterns.

Top post: Animated Bézier Curves

Melissa O'Neill writes about the PCG family of random number generators, including their design, statistical quality, and seeding.

Top post: Efficiently Generating a Number in a Range

Futility Closet collects curious facts, historical oddities, puzzles, and math items, and also runs a podcast.

Top post: Images Created from Prime Numbers

Cathy O'Neil, a mathematician and data scientist, writes about math, algorithmic bias, the ABC conjecture and the social effects of data.

Top post: Dirty Rant About the Human Brain Project

Lance Fortnow and Bill Gasarch write about computational complexity theory, math puzzles, and the history and culture of theoretical computer science.

Top post: You need much less memory than time

Allen Downey, a computer science professor and author, writes about statistics, Bayesian methods, and Python.

Top post: The inspection paradox is everywhere (2015)

Brian Hayes, a former Scientific American editor, writes Bit-player about computation, mathematics and simulations, with careful illustrations.

Top post: World3, the Public Beta (2012)

Nayuki's personal site with programming projects, tutorials, and libraries, including a QR code generator and articles on algorithms and x86 assembly.

Top post: Designing better file organization around tags, not hierarchies (2017)

The Wolfire Games team, makers of Overgrowth and the Humble Bundle, write about game development, math, and the games business.

Top post: Linear algebra for game developers – Part 1 (2009)

Luboš Motl, a Czech theoretical physicist, writes on string theory, quantum mechanics, math claims and climate science, often polemically.

Top post: Constructor theory deutsch and marletto

Simply Statistics is written by biostatisticians Jeff Leek, Roger Peng and Rafa Irizarry on statistics, data science and research reliability.

Top post: Tukey, Design Thinking, and Better Questions

Brent Yorgey is a Haskell programmer and educator who writes about functional programming, math, and teaching.

Top post: Abstraction, intuition, and the “monad tutorial fallacy” (2009)

Nicholas Rougeux publishes visual digital reproductions of historical books and data projects on c82.net, such as Byrne's Euclid and Werner's Nomenclature of Colours.

Top post: Byrne’s Euclid – A reproduction of the celebrated work from 1847

A Medium publication on mathematics, science and computing history, with stories about figures like Feynman, von Neumann, Turing and Dijkstra.

Top post: The Duties of John von Neumann’s Assistant in the 1930s (2020)

Setosa publishes interactive visual explanations of math, statistics, and machine learning topics such as PCA, Markov chains, and eigenvectors.

Top post: Principal Component Analysis Explained Visually (2015)

Paul Bourke's personal site collects pages on fractals, attractors, PostScript, planetarium dome projection, geometry, and graphics.

Top post: Fractals

Darius Bacon's site of programming toys and essays, including Turing Drawings, Bytebeat, and a hacker's introduction to partial evaluation.

Top post: Turing Drawings

Site tied to the book Real-Time Rendering, with graphics resources, book lists, ray tracing references, and a blog.

Top post: Ray Tracing Gems – The Book

Cosma Shalizi, a statistician at Carnegie Mellon, writes reviews and essays on statistics, complexity, power laws, and intelligence research.

Top post: A Detailed Review of Wolfram's "A New Kind of Science"

Raph Levien is a software developer and font and graphics researcher behind Inconsolata, Spiro, and a PhD thesis on curves.

Top post: Inconsolata

Two Wrongs is a personal blog on statistics, software design, Emacs, Awk, and decision-making.

Top post: Statistical Process Control: A Practitioner's Guide (2022)