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August 30, 2024 at 11:44
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Mathematics, Deep and Wide

Vitaly is a mathematics blog covering both the rigorous and the fascinating — abstract algebra, real analysis, number theory, geometry, and topology sit alongside probability, statistics, and the computational ideas shaping modern AI. Posts dig into the history of mathematics and the people who made it, without losing sight of the actual ideas. Whether you’re working through a proof or just curious about how math connects to the world, there’s something here worth reading.

Who Really Discovered Stokes’ Theorem: The Story Behind the Name
Oct 2, 2026
Who Really Discovered Stokes’ Theorem: The Story Behind the Name

One of the most famous results in mathematics and physics carries the wrong person's name. Stokes' theorem connects a surface integral to an integral over…

Hmath: The Math Analysis YouTube Channel Whose Creator Needs Your Support
Sep 25, 2026
Hmath: The Math Analysis YouTube Channel Whose Creator Needs Your Support

💔 I have a favorite YouTube channel on mathematical analysis — Hmath.

Sep 19, 2026
What Is the Last Digit of 1² + 2² + … + 99²? A Classic Math Puzzle

Welcome back to the weekend puzzle section — because what could be better than spending a few minutes on a good, solvable problem? This one…

Sep 17, 2026
How OpenAI Solved Navier-Stokes in 4 Days — and What Happened to the Other Millennium Problems

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Sep 16, 2026
The 196 Problem: Lychrel Numbers and the Unsolved Palindrome Mystery

Not sure when you'll need this, but it's one of those things that sticks with you once you hear it.

AI and Millennium Prize Problems: New Breakthroughs or Just Hype?
Sep 10, 2026
AI and Millennium Prize Problems: New Breakthroughs or Just Hype?

The internet is buzzing with speculation about AI achieving new mathematical breakthroughs. Whether these claims hold up under scrutiny is another question — but the…

AI Claims to Solve the Navier-Stokes Equations — A Millennium Prize Problem Breakthrough
Sep 8, 2026
AI Claims to Solve the Navier-Stokes Equations — A Millennium Prize Problem Breakthrough

One of the most famous unsolved problems in mathematics may have just fallen — not to a human, but to an AI model. OpenAI has…

Sep 3, 2026
Terence Tao on Mathematics, Number Theory, and AI in Modern Math

A new video has just been released where Terence explains mathematics — and it's well worth your time. There's a reason Terence Tao is widely…

Sep 1, 2026
September 1 in Math: 109 Is Prime and 1/9 Is the Simplest Repeating Decimal

Happy new school year! It turns out that the date itself hides two elegant mathematical facts — a prime number and the simplest repeating decimal…

Aug 30, 2026
Vital Math Turns 6: The Story of a Math YouTube Channel Driven by Beauty, Not Views

Six years. This time, there's no anniversary video and no big retrospective. It might look like the uploads have stopped and the channel is winding…

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