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Michael Barany @mjb.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

just in case you've been waiting for a decent discount to get your mathpig mug/shirt/apron/stickers/phonecase/etc, there's a sale on this week www.redbubble.com/people/mbarany/sh…

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Michael Barany @mjb.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

just in case you've been waiting for a decent discount to get your mathpig mug/shirt/apron/stickers/phonecase/etc, there's a sale on this week www.redbubble.com/people/mbarany/sh…

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Michael Barany @mjb.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

wake me up when Big Computer resolves the ABC Conjecture

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Michael Barany @mjb.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Always find Nobel Prize season so blah, like why can't they just give Fields Medals like a real domain of human achievement

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Michael Barany @mjb.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

sitting on loads of counterexamples to major conjectures but honestly I'm not in it for the glory, might leak via various channels that won't be traceable back to me just in case other people would find the results useful

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Michael Barany @mjb.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

RE: hcommons.social/@mpe/11725476784142… quite the achievement to get every living Fields medalist together to denounce something to which a handful of them have been actively contributing

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Michael Barany @mjb.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

before you say "not every living Fields medalist signed this" let me just ask: - did I claim they had? - you call that living?

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Michael Barany @mjb.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

RE: hcommons.social/@mpe/11725476784142… quite the achievement to get every living Fields medalist together to denounce something to which a handful of them have been actively contributing

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Michael Barany @mjb.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

[Fields medal, very old man] the Fields medal of course unlikely to be awarded for much longer, so it's a very limited pool

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Michael Barany @mjb.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

[Fields medal, very old man] RE: mathstodon.xyz/@mjb/117250484261322… both the youngest ever and oldest ever Fields medalist, the latter of course being the much more impressive achievement. hard to imagine anyone holding an international mathematical medal for longer.

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Michael Barany @mjb.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

ok chat, what are we doing for Serre's 100th birthday next week? I'll be writing mathematics badly.

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Michael Barany @mjb.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

ok chat, what are we doing for Serre's 100th birthday next week? I'll be writing mathematics badly.

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Michael Barany @mjb.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

I've joined the Association for Human Mathematics and I think fellow members of the mathematics community who value and prioritise human mathematics should consider joining too www.ahmath.org

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Michael Barany @mjb.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

Great time to recall that Navier-Stokes is not a real mathematician but rather a mythical apparition invented* to scare fluid dynamics students into studying more. 🌊👹 * discovered

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Michael Barany @mjb.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

Great time to recall that Navier-Stokes is not a real mathematician but rather a mythical apparition invented* to scare fluid dynamics students into studying more. 🌊👹 * discovered

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Michael Barany @mjb.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

RE: mathstodon.xyz/@tao/117237321472650… the "difficulty landscape" point is really important; mathematicians have long recognised that finding and formulating problems with the right difficulty is one of the hardest and most essential tasks in both teaching and research, and […]

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

For anyone not following the drama, there's been apparently a big development in ai math, along with some accusations of very bad behavior by OpenAI. But we don't have details yet. If I understand it, Buckmaster and Levent Alpoge made a big discovery on Navier-Stokes. Events go something like this:

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Michael Barany @mjb.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

happy Hypatia's Birthday, what are you doing to celebrate? honestly the IMU should make it an official holiday, big missed opportunity

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Michael Barany @mjb.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

The German word you're looking for is: Gegenbeispielfeuersbrunst

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Michael Barany @mjb.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026

next Greek epic for hollywood treatment needs to be Euclid's Elements. overdue

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Michael Barany @mjb.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 26/07/2026

everyone getting worked up about genAI's big new trick (counterexamples) needs to take a beat and revisit their Lakatos

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Thomas Kahle @tomkalei.mathe.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

Apparently somebody posted a #counterexample to the Jacobian conjecture on X last night (found by an LLM). I won’t link that junk site, but somebody added it to Wikipedia already if you care: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobian_conj… Some initial thoughts in a 🧵 Should […]

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Michael Barany @mjb.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 02/06/2026

@Rowena lots of compromises here, for sure. It's drawing mainly from and focusing mainly on the hegemonic centre for a number of reasons (not excuses) including that's where corporate ai and the maths profession most visibly interact

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Michael Barany @mjb.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 02/06/2026

Since September I've been working with an international group to develop what we hope can be a response from the mathematics community to artificial intelligence in maths. The Leiden Declaration is now posted and open for signatures: leidendeclaration.ai #LeidenDeclaration

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Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics

This declaration calls for action to address the challenges posed by the use of artificial intelligence within mathematics research.

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Michael Barany @mjb.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 12/04/2026

@christianp "Status: approved" doing a lot of work on that webpage

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Michael Barany @mjb.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 08/04/2026

p.s. any explanations for the wonky bit after "/event/" in urls from the official ICM website. is it just a crappy CMS effect?

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Michael Barany @mjb.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 08/04/2026

RE: mathstodon.xyz/@mjb/116218067708018… one striking difference between 2026 and past American efforts: "Visa requests remain the sole responsibility of each individual traveler and beyond providing a letter of invitation, the ICM Organizing Committee and/or the International […]

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Michael Barany @mjb.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 25/03/2026

messes up the number of times USA selected to host ICM (USA was also selected for the ICM that became Toronto 1924) and just trolling me with its description of the Fields Medal

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Michael Barany @mjb.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 15/03/2026

Because we care deeply about international mathematics and its mathematicians, we must recognize the threat to both that the upcoming ICM poses. Please read and consider signing: Move the 2026 ICM out of the United States […]

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Michael Barany @mjb.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 15/03/2026

@jesusmargar likewise I assume the authors don't want to distract from the content by putting their own names on it at this point, but I can say they are all mathematicians I absolutely trust to conduct this responsibly.

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Michael Barany @mjb.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 15/03/2026

@jesusmargar I assume the authors are waiting until there is a critical mass of signatures before publishing them, given the sensitivities that might be involved in sticking one's neck out before there is strength in numbers

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Michael Barany @mjb.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 12/03/2026

New from me in AMS Notices: A Very Brief Political History of American-hosted International Congresses of Mathematicians www.ams.org/journals/notices/202604…

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Michael Barany @mjb.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 03/03/2025

ok maths buddies, what are we doing this year for Hypatia's birthday?

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Michael Barany @mjb.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2025

why are mathematicians always asking each other to prove their conjectures? solve your own problems! mind your own business!

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Michael Barany @mjb.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2025

thinking of the time I found out my math professor drove a Toyota Matrix and I was like haha linear algebra reference and he was like no it has good gas mileage

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Michael Barany @mjb.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2025

never going to prove the Riemann Hypothesis at this rate

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Michael Barany @mjb.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2025

never going to prove the Riemann Hypothesis at this rate

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Michael Barany @mjb.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2025

can everyone sharing that Lehrer/NSA story take a moment to reflect on what it means taht the likely largerst employer of mathematicians in the world has secret math research journals only viewable by a screened subset of US citizens, and what it means that even Tom Lehrer was on their payroll […]

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Michael Barany @mjb.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2025

"some of you may have had occasion to run into mathematicians and to wonder therefore how they got that way" Tom Lehrer's irreverence will never not be timely

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Michael Barany @mjb.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2025

wishing a serviceable pi approximation day to those who celebrate 🛞 22/7 🛞

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Michael Barany @mjb.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2025

Edinburgh-area and Fringe-bound followers, come see me tell a very old fart joke and talk about the history of maths! 2nd and 21st August

Solving the unsolvable
A Medieval conundrum and the pungent nature of mathematics.

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