I am very impressed by many professional mathematicians posting expository articles on their blog. One of the great advantages it has over just a survey article is that the comments section allows direct interaction with the author. Also, in many cases the presentation is more relaxed than a research paper and more fast paced than a book. I have examples of at least three blogs : Terry Tao’s blog , Rigorous Trivialities and The Unapologetic Mathematician , with regular detailed postings on various topics. I am wondering why there arent so many CS theory blogs? Luca’s blog is a great one that stands out in this regard. There has a been a lot of discussion about selling CS theory, see for example this post by Lance Fortnow. I think that one of the ways to do this is to write good expository articles and popularize various ideas that arise again and again in theoretical CS.
April 2, 2008 at 3:06 pm |
Awww, c’mon. You list more CS theory blogs on the right panel than math blogs. To be precise, 15 in the CS and 5 in math.
Also, the difference between CS theory and math these days is vanishing…
April 2, 2008 at 4:52 pm |
SK, by CS theory related material I am referring to complexity theory and algorithms. It will be great if you can point me to CS theory blogs that post detailed material like Terry’s blog.
The blogs I list do discuss important stuff but I still miss detailed technical posts.
September 10, 2009 at 7:07 am |
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Cheers! Sandra. R.