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Quomodocumque is a personal blog at quomodocumque.wordpress.com about math and writing. Since 2012, 23 different Hacker News readers have linked it 24 times, most often “ABC conjecture proved?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.

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24mentions?
23HN people?
2012–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 7 in 2012

Too few sampled comments (10) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Jordan Ellenberg's math blog. HN commenters link to it as a source on Mochizuki's abc-conjecture proof, Knuth's big-O notation, child prodigies, and reading lists. None of the comments judge the writing.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 10 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Math, Madison, food, the Orioles, books, my kids.

Most-linked posts?

  1. ABC conjecture proved?
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2012-09-04
  2. The capacity to be alone
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-04-13
  3. When random people give money to random other people (2017)
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-07-19
  4. Mathematicians becoming data scientists
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-02-26
  5. Why Won’t Anyone Teach Her Math?
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-02-14

What Hacker News says?

  1. sanxiyn · 2012-09-11
    Your interpretation is right, and those minima are interesting in themselves. For example, when http://quomodocumque.wordpress.com/2012/09/03/mochizuki-on-a... was posted, the very first comment was about that. "It almost looks as if the method doesn't (as presently written) produce explicit constants. Hopefully as the ideas become more widely understood, effective constants will be able to be extracted."

    Comment linking /2012/09/03/mochizuki-on-abc/

    on “Proof Claimed for Deep Connection between Prime Numbers”
  2. heinrichf · 2017-02-26

    Submitted Mathematicians becoming data scientists as a story · 237 points

    HN discussion
  3. rfurmani · 2012-09-11
    That link is old and was posted a few years before the final paper. The more recent discussion is here: http://quomodocumque.wordpress.com/2012/09/03/mochizuki-on-a...

    Comment linking /2012/09/03/mochizuki-on-abc/

    on “Proof Claimed for Deep Connection between Prime Numbers”
  4. munificent · 2025-06-13

    Submitted When random people give money to random other people (2017) as a story · 125 points

    HN discussion
  5. kzahel · 2012-09-11
    http://quomodocumque.wordpress.com/2012/09/03/mochizuki-on-a... [edit - linked the wrong discussion]

    Comment linking /2012/09/03/mochizuki-on-abc/

    on “Proof Claimed for Deep Connection between Prime Numbers”
  6. bdr · 2012-09-04

    Submitted Shin Mochizuki has released his long-rumored proof of the ABC conjecture as a story · 70 points

    HN discussion
  7. svat · 2025-11-23
    Related to your comment, not the original post/book: - On Knuth’s idea (which seems good to me), see http://quomodocumque.wordpress.com/2012/05/29/knuth-big-o-ca... but also the last two comments by David Speyer. - And see also http://cornellmath.wordpress.com/2007/08/28/non-nonstandard-... and http://texnicalstuff.blogspot.in/2011/05/big-o-notation-for-... that seem to have tried teaching along somewhat similar (bu…

    Comment linking /2012/05/29/knuth-big-o-calculus-implicit-definitions-difficulty-of/

    on “Calculus for Mathematicians, Computer Scientists, and Physicists [pdf]”
  8. sebg · 2022-02-14

    Submitted Why Won’t Anyone Teach Her Math? as a story · 33 points

    HN discussion
  9. dsrguru · 2012-11-25
    The more mathematically-inclined HNers might be interested in Brian Conrad and Terrence Tao's comments at the bottom of this previous HN article: http://quomodocumque.wordpress.com/2012/09/03/mochizuki-on-a... Edit: Minhyong Kim's initial thoughts seem very interesting as well! http://mathoverflow.net/questions/106560/what-is-the-underly... And for the less mathematically-inclined: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?i…

    Comment linking /2012/09/03/mochizuki-on-abc

    on “An ABC proof too tough even for mathematicians”
  10. williamstein · 2022-02-14

    Submitted Why won’t anybody teach her math? as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  11. j_s · 2017-03-17
    I will spam you with my uncurated collection I've hoarded for just from the past few months here on HN: CS 20SI: Tensorflow for Deep Learning Research http://web.stanford.edu/class/cs20si/syllabus.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13781067 A visual introduction to probability and statistics http://students.brown.edu/seeing-theory/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13735714 Mathematicians becoming data sci…

    Comment linking /2017/02/26/mathematicians-becoming-data-scientists-should-you-how-to/

    on “Free resources for learning full-stack web development”
  12. aburan28 · 2016-04-13

    Submitted The capacity to be alone as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  13. mrkgnao · 2017-03-23
    You're not stupid. At least, there is very little chance that the math you're trying to work on right now requires super-normal cognitive abilities of any sort: it's more about learning to be comfortable with the ambiguity or lack of comprehension that the process of learning entails. Here's a grab-bag of stuff that have helped me (and still do) lift myself out of "damn I'm dumb" situations such as the one you seem…

    Comment linking /2010/07/05/the-capacity-to-be-alone/

    on “The Mathematics Autodidact’s Aid (2005) [pdf]”
  14. sajid · 2012-09-04

    Submitted ABC conjecture proved? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. dfan · 2014-06-01
    Some followup conversation in the comments at Ellenberg's blog: http://quomodocumque.wordpress.com/2014/05/30/should-andrew-...

    Comment linking /2014/05/30/should-andrew-gelman-have-stayed-a-math-major/

    on “The Wrong Way to Treat Child Geniuses”
  16. chrismealy · 2012-07-13

    Submitted I thought the truth was apt to be simple as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  17. gwern · 2013-06-23
    Criticism: https://quomodocumque.wordpress.com/2013/01/05/do-we-really-...

    Comment linking /2013/01/05/do-we-really-underestimate-how-much-well-change-or-absolute-value-is-not-linear/

    on “Why You Won’t Be the Person You Expect to Be”
  18. sebg · 2026-02-05

    Submitted What's the Entropy of a Random Integer? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  19. impendia · 2016-07-15
    Here is Ellenberg's own list of books he has read in the last few years: https://quomodocumque.wordpress.com/the-booklist/

    Comment linking /the-booklist/

    on “Ask HN: What are your favorite books?”
  20. mathgenius · 2026-01-06

    Submitted Reaching the Masses as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  21. belter · 2023-10-19

    Submitted Underestimating Shakespeare and Real Numbers as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  22. danboarder · 2021-06-15

    Submitted The capacity to be alone (2010) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  23. yusufp · 2017-07-19

    Submitted When random people give money to random other people as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  24. rfreytag · 2013-02-04

    Submitted Barry Mazur Wins the National Medal of Science as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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