Local Blogs

There are now several excellent blogs somehow to mathematics is carried out by the local population, including a few new ones, so I thought that would be a good idea to mention here these related:

Andrew Gelman of Columbia Statistics Department runs the very active Statistical Modeling, causal inference and Social Science blog, which boasts a wealth of all kinds of different subjects, from technical ones about statistics, to social sciences applications.Emanuel Derman, who began his career as a HEP theorist, was one of the early migrants to the financial industry and now has here teaches at Columbia in the Financial Engineering program, a new blog at Reuters. His last book was the very interesting my life as a Quant, this autumn, he has a new coming out right models worn Badly. Cathy O'Neil, a mathematician who learned here for a while before you change career path, starting with a job at the hedge fund D.E. Shaw, has recently started with the beautiful Mathbabe blog. I think I mentioned this already, but one of my colleagues, Johan de Jong (Cathy's husband) also has a blog, the stacks Project Blog. If your metrics to evaluate blogs like "quality of information is" x "degree of abstraction and technical", are the best blog in the world.

If you have comments on these blogs, I encourage you to post them there rather than here. I would be interested in hearing about any other local mathematics/physics related blogs that I am not aware of.

Update: another local mathematics, physics-related blog has made its debut today, Davide Castelvecchi degrees of freedom. It is part of a network of new blogs today being launched by Scientific American, who is based in New York.