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Jørgen Veisdal
Personal blog · privatdozent.comathhistoryscience
Jørgen Veisdal writes Privatdozent, a personal blog at privatdozent.co about math, history and science. Since 2021, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 64 times, most often “The Birthplace of AI”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-05-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Jørgen Veisdal's Privatdozent podcast, here an episode on Kurt Gödel's life and work. The only comment is a bare link, posted in a thread asking for favourite podcast episodes of 2021.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Essays on the history of mathematics. 10k+ subscribers. Substack Bestseller (2024) 🥇, Grow Feature (2022) 📈, Featured Substack Newsletter (2021) 🌟.
Most-linked posts?
- The Birthplace of AI3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-04-28
- The Eccentricities of J. Robert Oppenheimer2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-07-23
- The Birth of the Institute for Advanced Study (1930)2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-08-29
- The Unparalleled Genius of John von Neumann2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-08-15
- Gödel's Solution to Einstein's Field Equations2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-07-27
- John F. Nash's Work in Pure Mathematics2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-01-14
- Can We Survive Technology? – John von Neumann (1955)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-01-04
- Einstein and Hilbert’s Relativity Race: Who generalized relativity first?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-07-03
What Hacker News says?
THE PRIVATDOZENT PODCAST Episode 2: Kurt Gödel's Brilliant Madness https://www.privatdozent.co/p/episode-2-kurt-godels-brillian...
Comment linking /p/episode-2-kurt-godels-brilliant-madness
on “Ask HN: Favorite Podcast Episode of 2021?”Submitted The Martians of Budapest as a story · 304 points
HN discussionSubmitted The purge of German science in 1933 as a story · 152 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Battle Line at Louvain as a story · 143 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Poincaré Conjecture, Explained as a story · 133 points
HN discussionSubmitted Abel, the Mozart of Mathematics as a story · 112 points
HN discussionSubmitted When Wiener met Einstein as a story · 83 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Golden Age of Quantum Physics as a story · 79 points
HN discussionSubmitted Alan Turing in America as a story · 73 points
HN discussionSubmitted Von Neumann, Einstein, Morgenstern, Morse and Lefschetz (1952) as a story · 72 points
HN discussionSubmitted Turing Uncomputability as a story · 45 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gödel's Solution to Einstein's Field Equations as a story · 16 points
HN discussionSubmitted Oppenheimer's Letter of Recommendation for Richard Feynman (1943) as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Unparalleled Genius of John von Neumann as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Duties of John von Neumann’s Assistant as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Can We Survive Technology? – John von Neumann (1955) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Nash's Invention of Non-Cooperative Game Theory (1949-50) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Unparalleled Genius of John von Neumann (2021) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Einstein-Freud Correspondence as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cantor and Dedekind's Early Correspondence (1873-74) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The von Neumann-Morgenstern Collaboration (1938-43) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Birth of the Institute for Advanced Study (1930) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted John F. Nash's Work in Pure Mathematics as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted When Einstein met Churchill (1933) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Turing's Work on the Riemann Hypothesis as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Entscheidungsproblem ("Decision Problem") as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Birthplace of AI (1956) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sir Arthur Eddington's Grand Expedition (1919) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Birthplace of AI as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted When Turing met Wittgenstein (1939) as a story · 2 points
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