Enter The Tangent Space (dot com)

Here's a new site for exploring cool math ideas: thetangentspace.com

My blog posts here have often alternated between technically detailed mathy or algorithmic thoughts, and more informal musings on life, the world, and interesting things in it. In my mind, there are really two audiences - one for the mathy stuff, and one for everything else. So it probably makes sense to have two places to put these different thoughts. From now on, my posts here will be less mathy, and I'll feel free to go math-crazy (or algorithm-crazy, as the case may be) on thetangentspace.

I'm trying a new type of blog with thetangentspace. It's about math research, and research is about communicating and collaborating. Even if it's a slow channel, it's an interactive process. So thetangentspace is both a blog and a wiki. The blog is meant as an easy stream of intuitive ideas - something you can keep up with, without investing too much thought. The wiki is where the details go - the full proofs and formal definitions. It's also a place for other mathematicians to make significant additions - beyond what you can leave in the comments of a blog - using the same software as wikipedia. My hope is that some of the ideas and questions I post will inspire others to build on these initial offerings.

Check it out!
thetangentspace.com