Mathematician littmath says marketing math results with soaring-music blogs violates community norms
littmath · x · 2026-09-30
In a thread with @ObhishekSaha, mathematician littmath defended the recommendation to "refrain from treating the release of mathematical results as marketing vehicles," arguing that using math for marketing is a norm violation rather than an ethical dictum. He added that one point of the recommendations was to "say what would make the math community happy" — and that fewer blog posts and videos with soaring background music would go a long way.
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