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Thomas Lin

@7homaslin.com
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Super nerd here to spread the joy of learning. 📖 Publisher @quantabooks.org‬ at @simonsfoundation.org 📚 Author list: Terence Tao, David Tong, Kevin Hartnett ⚛️ Founding EIC @quantamagazine.org 💼 Prev @nytimes.com, CASW, CUNY J-School 🚴🏼🎾♟️

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Thomas Lin @7homaslin.com · 27/09/2026
Top story on cover of Sunday @nytimes: “Interviews with more than 30 current and former employees reveal the agency is now tightly controlled by Mr. Kennedy and his associates, and its scientists are finding it increasingly difficult to do their jobs effectively.”
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Thomas Lin @7homaslin.com · 11/09/2026
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Thomas Lin @7homaslin.com · 11/09/2026
In a letter warning of a “severe misalignment of AI in mathematics,” 25 Fields Medalists write: “the push by AI companies to solve mathematical problems as a benchmark is detrimental to the science of mathematics, and to the mathematical community.” Read the letter: mathandai.org
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Thomas Lin @7homaslin.com · 05/09/2026
AnthropicAI just announced a formalization of Fermat’s Last Theorem using 13 million lines of Lean code. First on their recommended reading list is @kevinhartnett.bsky.social’s new book THE PROOF IN THE CODE: www.quantabooks.org/books/the-pr... Source: www.anthropic.com/research/for...
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Thomas Lin @7homaslin.com · 15/08/2026
As seen at @powells.bsky.social in Portland, OR, today, @kevinhartnett.bsky.social’s mathematical thriller about the birth and rise of the verification language Lean, THE PROOF IN THE CODE.
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Thomas Lin @7homaslin.com · 10/07/2026
This glass frog has to be one of the coolest creatures I saw in Costa Rica last month. Its translucent skin is an amazing adaptation to camouflage it from predators. When you shine a light from below, you can see its internal organs!
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Thomas Lin @7homaslin.com · 01/05/2026
Galleys for Terence Tao’s SIX MATH ESSENTIALS have arrived at our @quantabooks.org offices. We’re excited to share them with reviewers! The official publication date is Oct 27 and you can preorder the book here: www.quantabooks.org/books/six-ma...
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Thomas Lin @7homaslin.com · 29/04/2026
NEW: Learn all about the expansion of the universe in Emily Levesque's STARLIGHT IS FALLING, how mineral dust shaped our world in Lynn Soreghan's THE CAPITAL OF DUST, and the cognitive sophistication of our immune system in Shruti Naik's IMMUNE INTELLIGENCE. Coming 2027 and 2028! www.quantabooks.org
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Thomas Lin @7homaslin.com · 14/03/2026
Best thing I saw on TV in London last week: Gogglebox. It’s like MST3000 but with hilarious reax from regular Brits watching the news or other popular shows. Also: Street markings telling you which way to look are surprisingly helpful.
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Thomas Lin @7homaslin.com · 10/03/2026
At the @panmacmillan.bsky.social stand at the London Book Fair. Go team @quantabooks.org + @fsgbooks.bsky.social!
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Thomas Lin @7homaslin.com · 25/02/2026
Conservation of mass.
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Thomas Lin @7homaslin.com · 23/02/2026
Eight months before publication, Terence Tao’s SIX MATH ESSENTIALS is already the #1 selling math book on Amazon.
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Thomas Lin @7homaslin.com · 10/02/2026
I'm thrilled to reveal the new cover for @teorth.bsky.social's SIX MATH ESSENTIALS! This slim, elegant book reveals Terry Tao's deep insights about what math is, where mathematical ideas came from, how they've evolved, and how math is best used to make sense of the complexities of our world.
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Thomas Lin @7homaslin.com · 14/01/2026
That’s one way to keep people off your front lawn.
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Thomas Lin @7homaslin.com · 24/10/2025
I always enjoy @ericaklarreich.bsky.social’s math pieces. This is what a Noperthedron looks like:
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Thomas Lin @7homaslin.com · 08/10/2025
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Thomas Lin @7homaslin.com · 30/08/2025
Who else is going to miss the Kids Section? In case anyone at @nytimes is listening: This was one of the best things about getting the weekend paper.
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Thomas Lin @7homaslin.com · 18/08/2025
Pretty cool that they’re still carrying ALICE AND BOB MEET THE WALL OF FIRE at @powells.bsky.social in Portland. I meant to sign it “Photons = quanta of light” but signed it “Quanta = photons of light” instead. Doh! I blame vacation brain.
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Thomas Lin @7homaslin.com · 06/08/2025
“To a certain extent, all dictatorships are alike… But Kim Il-sung took the cult of personality to a new level. What distinguished him in the rogues’ gallery of twentieth-century dictators was his ability to harness the power of faith. Kim Il-sung understood the power of religion.” — Barbara Demick
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Thomas Lin @7homaslin.com · 09/07/2025
A nerd’s delight: Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven” rewritten in pilish (where length of each word represents a digit of pi) by Michael Keith, as seen in Sarah Hart’s delightful book ONCE UPON A PRIME.
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Thomas Lin @7homaslin.com · 24/06/2025
It's been years since I last looked at GoodReads reviews of ALICE AND BOB MEET THE WALL OF FIRE. This has to be one of my favorites of all time (heartfelt thanks to Clare of Waitsfield, VT, for reminding a crusty old editor why we do what we do): www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
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Thomas Lin @7homaslin.com · 22/06/2025
Took this photo in 2016. Wikipedia: “the statue was conceived in 1865… to commemorate… the perseverance of American democracy and the liberation of the nation's slaves…. “…the statue became an icon of freedom and of the United States, seen as a symbol of welcome to immigrants arriving by sea.”
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Thomas Lin @7homaslin.com · 14/05/2025
Enjoyed this spicy line while rereading Joe Polchinski’s memoir: “… when I took college physics and found out what calculus was really for. (Mathematicians might tell you that it has other uses, but they would be wrong.)”
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Thomas Lin @7homaslin.com · 26/04/2025
And will never forget this event at my all-time favorite independent book store, also in 2019.
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Thomas Lin @7homaslin.com · 26/04/2025
On this #IndieBookstoreDay, remembering six years ago when I signed copies of our @quantamagazine.bsky.social books at the family-owned Book Bin in Salem and Corvallis, Oregon.
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Thomas Lin @7homaslin.com · 19/03/2025
Don’t the people who are banning books and cutting funding to libraries read books themselves? Don’t their children read books? Our (gen Z and alpha) kids have a closet full of books (plus stacks all around the apartment) and we check out books all the time from The New York Public Library. #booksky
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Thomas Lin @7homaslin.com · 13/03/2025
Accidentally brought a shirt that requires cufflinks to the London Book Fair. So I asked the hotel if they had two extra paper clips.
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Thomas Lin @7homaslin.com · 09/03/2025
100 years of the New Yorker set against the backdrop of 500 years of Trinity College. It is not lost on me that Isaac Newton used the echoes in Nevile’s Court to calculate the speed of sound and that other illustrious students included James Clerk Maxwell and Srinivasa Ramanujan.
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Thomas Lin @7homaslin.com · 04/03/2025
Would be good if Google AI could tell the difference between 10^-20 and 10-20.
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Thomas Lin @7homaslin.com · 27/02/2025
A new mathematical model simulates coral polyp growth forms (including massives, cauliflower-like nubs, columns, branches and tables) using only five growth variables. Learn more in @quantamagazine.bsky.social: www.quantamagazine.org/the-elegant-...
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Thomas Lin @7homaslin.com · 26/02/2025
@mattstrassler.bsky.social on physics vs pseudoscience: “In physics, we accept that we might occasionally fail to recognize something as real in return for confidence that we never mistakenly accept an illusion. That’s how we ensure that knowledge, limited as it might be, remains trustworthy.”
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Thomas Lin @7homaslin.com · 23/02/2025
The cover of @nytimes.com Sunday Opinion section this morning:
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Thomas Lin @7homaslin.com · 21/02/2025
Such a fun @quantamagazine.bsky.social video about the big recent proof of geometric Langlands: quantamagazine.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?...
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Thomas Lin @7homaslin.com · 20/02/2025
Feels amazing for @quantabooks.bsky.social to join @fsgbooks.bsky.social's family of imprints -- and how cool is it that we get to sit next to @questlove.bsky.social's AUWA BOOKS?
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Thomas Lin @7homaslin.com · 20/02/2025
Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about the quote I chose to feature at the beginning of the Quanta math and science books published by the MIT Press in 2018.
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Thomas Lin @7homaslin.com · 10/02/2025
Was looking up why Serena was in the half-time show and got this helpful and completely non-hallucinogenic Gemini overview:
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Thomas Lin @7homaslin.com · 24/01/2025
When you work at a place that has a lot of physicists and mathematicians.
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Thomas Lin @7homaslin.com · 02/01/2025
And we also introduced the public to Artur Avila, Brazil's first Fields medalist: www.quantamagazine.org/artur-avila-...
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Thomas Lin @7homaslin.com · 02/01/2025
In 2014, we co-wrote this profile of Subhash Khot, the theoretical computer scientist behind the Unique Games Conjecture: www.quantamagazine.org/a-grand-visi...
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Thomas Lin @7homaslin.com · 02/01/2025
In 2022, we collaborated to produce this profile of the sphere-packing Fields Medalist Maryna Viazovska: www.quantamagazine.org/ukrainian-ma...
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Thomas Lin @7homaslin.com · 21/12/2024
One of my favorite features in @nytimes.com each year. Kudos to Jeffrey Scales and the photojournalists and photo editors who captured the year in pictures. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Thomas Lin @7homaslin.com · 21/12/2024
Playground near the Queensborough (59th St) Bridge about an hour ago. “Slow down you move too fast / You’ve got to make the morning last…”
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Thomas Lin @7homaslin.com · 11/12/2024
Be still my heart: The book has a Mathematical Appendix.
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Thomas Lin @7homaslin.com · 11/12/2024
“In the study of the most complex object in the known universe, mathematical models are not just useful but absolutely essential. The brain will not be understood through words alone.” — @neurograce.bsky.social in MODELS OF THE MIND.
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Thomas Lin @7homaslin.com · 08/12/2024
Forget the Fermi paradox: What’s the probability this path actually leads where he thinks it does over the next four years?
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Thomas Lin @7homaslin.com · 06/12/2024
Google AI has an interesting sense of time.
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Thomas Lin @7homaslin.com · 05/12/2024
From the @nytimes.com holiday gift guide the other weekend, this is what caught my eye. My 14yo is mostly done assembling the 906 pieces, with very minimal help from Dad.
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Thomas Lin @7homaslin.com · 27/11/2024
On display near the registers at the UES Barnes & Noble, a heartwarming and funny book of anecdotes telling the quirky stories of real New Yorkers by my former @nytimes.com colleague @dansaltzstein.bsky.social.
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Thomas Lin @7homaslin.com · 22/11/2024
Hello Bluesky! Having just migrated from that other site this week, I'm excited to see that most of the science and math folks I followed there are also here (or at least have taken the first step of creating a handle). Here's my first bluesky pic. Any guesses as to where this was taken?
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Thomas Lin @7homaslin.com · 20/11/2024
What was that word again?
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