Dan Shipper in Chain of Thought Last week I wrote that we’d be publishing a few excerpts from a book I’m writing about the worldview I’ve developed by writing, coding, and living with AI. Here’s the ...

Alexander Grothendieck was a titan in his field, making deep connections that fuelled a revolution in mathematics, before giving it all up and disappearing. Jacob Aron explores what his work meant ...

This passage sums up both the mathematical undercurrent of the book and its distinctive narrative style. Best known for decoding Serre’s conjecture—along with his French collaborator Jean-Pierre ...