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Sunil Singh
Personal blog · sunilsingh-42118.medium.commathculture
Sunil Singh's personal blog at sunilsingh-42118.medium.com covers math and culture. Since 2022, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “The Death of the Mathematics I Knew”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked Medium post is in a thread on 'A Mathematician's Lament'. The one comment discusses that essay's quote on academics and mathematical talent, citing an r/math discussion rather than the post.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- The Death of the Mathematics I Knew3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-04-10
What Hacker News says?
There was an interesting discussion about this quote on r/math about a year back: https://old.reddit.com/r/math/comments/obipos/academics_when... The main counter-argument presented was that if a student makes it all the way to graduate school in mathematics while following instruction, they must have some base level of mathematical talent. Then, continued hard work and persistence can set you up for a strong career…
Comment linking /the-death-of-the-mathematics-i-knew-2255693c87cd
on “A Mathematician's Lament [pdf]”Submitted Dehumanizing Math Educators: The Jo Boaler Story You Don’t Know as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Death of the Mathematics I Knew as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The death of the mathematics I knew as a story · 1 points
HN discussion