Rogue mathematician https://davidbessis.substack.com/https://bsky.app/profile/davidbessis.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/davidbessis.bsky.social/post/3mjz6kw7tm227https://open.substack.com/pub/davidbessis/p/the-fall-of-the-theorem-economy?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web21 Apr 2026 14:21 +0000at://did:plc:bjmeuaarinpasvyucmt2invp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjz6kw7tm227https://bsky.app/profile/davidbessis.bsky.social/post/3milbstkzqc2p"Mathematics in the age of AI"—a one-hour conversation I had earlier this year, for an audience of machine-learning graduate students at Université Paris-Saclay. [In French] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dTbfLX2YYo03 Apr 2026 08:17 +0000at://did:plc:bjmeuaarinpasvyucmt2invp/app.bsky.feed.post/3milbstkzqc2phttps://bsky.app/profile/davidbessis.bsky.social/post/3mf3d6v3olc2ghttps://open.substack.com/pub/davidbessis/p/letter-to-a-phd-student?r=37nzem&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true17 Feb 2026 19:43 +0000at://did:plc:bjmeuaarinpasvyucmt2invp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mf3d6v3olc2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/davidbessis.bsky.social/post/3me4ar37wxc2jhttps://open.substack.com/pub/davidbessis/p/attention-is-all-we-have?r=37nzem&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true05 Feb 2026 11:07 +0000at://did:plc:bjmeuaarinpasvyucmt2invp/app.bsky.feed.post/3me4ar37wxc2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/davidbessis.bsky.social/post/3mcrhqgmcmc2xThis reminds me of John Nash's letter where he declined an offer for a prestigious chair at the University of Chicago because he was expecting to become Emperor of Antarctica. [contains quote post or other embedded content]19 Jan 2026 10:48 +0000at://did:plc:bjmeuaarinpasvyucmt2invp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcrhqgmcmc2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/davidbessis.bsky.social/post/3madyail4xs25https://davidbessis.substack.com/p/thinking-fast-slow-and-super-slow19 Dec 2025 15:15 +0000at://did:plc:bjmeuaarinpasvyucmt2invp/app.bsky.feed.post/3madyail4xs25https://bsky.app/profile/davidbessis.bsky.social/post/3m7crkcwyvk24Taken at face value, "twins reared apart" studies seem to prove the IQ is almost entirely genetic. But when you look at the actual science, you realize that it is entirely inconclusive — the approach just doen't work! https://davidbessis.substack.com/p/twins-reared-apart-do-not-exist06 Dec 2025 10:18 +0000at://did:plc:bjmeuaarinpasvyucmt2invp/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7crkcwyvk24https://bsky.app/profile/davidbessis.bsky.social/post/3m5t23giqbs2jJust received this legitimate reader request: could I publish a French Substack, alongside the original English? (The same could be asked about my posts here.) I could, but it wouldn't be worth the effort. I'm writing for a global audience whose only lingua franca is English.17 Nov 2025 10:42 +0000at://did:plc:bjmeuaarinpasvyucmt2invp/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5t23giqbs2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/davidbessis.bsky.social/post/3m5mlhstw6225https://davidbessis.substack.com/p/the-curious-case-of-broken-theorems14 Nov 2025 21:05 +0000at://did:plc:bjmeuaarinpasvyucmt2invp/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5mlhstw6225https://bsky.app/profile/davidbessis.bsky.social/post/3lrq4z563hc25Why you can't fit Terry Tao on a bell curve, and why genius is too extreme for genetics: https://davidbessis.substack.com/p/why-genes-cant-explain-genius16 Jun 2025 13:55 +0000at://did:plc:bjmeuaarinpasvyucmt2invp/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrq4z563hc25https://bsky.app/profile/davidbessis.bsky.social/post/3lp7yf2bc3s2xIf you're curious about absurdly over-engineered protocols for drawing winners of public giveaways — or if you just want a free copy of my book — take a look at my new long form post. https://davidbessis.substack.com/p/paperback-is-in-a-cryptographic-giveaway15 May 2025 16:59 +0000at://did:plc:bjmeuaarinpasvyucmt2invp/app.bsky.feed.post/3lp7yf2bc3s2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/davidbessis.bsky.social/post/3lmzoqut6ms2t"Successful math becomes so intuitive that it no longer feels like math." New long form post... https://davidbessis.substack.com/p/the-magic-of-mathematical-intuition17 Apr 2025 18:00 +0000at://did:plc:bjmeuaarinpasvyucmt2invp/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmzoqut6ms2t