July 30, 2025 | HLFF Blog

HLFF Blog: A Random Walk on the Wild Side

Will a random walk help you find your way back home?  Read more...
July 23, 2025 | HLFF Blog

HLFF Blog: A Cat Video Sent from Deep Space Paves the Way for a Space Internet

For millennia, our communication was tethered to the physical world. You could either talk to someone directly or rely on a messenger on foot, horse, or a sailing ship to send a letter. The invention of the telegraph and radio changed all that. Suddenly, we could communicate to someone on the other side of the world. We wrapped the globe in signals that travel at the speed of light and today, our communications can reach almost any corner of the planet in a variety of different ways.  Read more...
June 25, 2025 | HLFF Blog

HLFF Blog: What Have the Ancient Babylonians Ever Done for Us?

How ancient Babylonians laid the foundations for abstract mathematical reasoning.  Read more...
June 18, 2025 | HLFF Blog

HLFF Blog: The Biggest Mathematical Proof Ever

We look at a breakthrough 2017 proof and the mathematics leading up to it.  Read more...
June 11, 2025 | HLFF Blog

HLFF Blog Post: Artists Are Using Poisoned Pixel Cloaks to Protect Their Art From AI

AI is igniting a quiet revolt in the art community.  Read more...
June 4, 2025 | HLFF Blog Post

HLFF Blog: Getting the Measure of the Cosmos

How mathematics took humanity from not knowing the size of the Earth to estimating the diameter of the observable universe, and beyond.  Read more...
May 28, 2025 | HLFF Blog Post

HLFF Spotlight: Alumni in Action – Visualization and Integrity

Meet Lonni Besançon, an Assistant Professor of Data Visualization, HLF alumnus, and a fierce advocate for academic integrity.  Read more...
May 21, 2025 | HLFF Blog Post

HLFF Blog: The Internet Chronicles – Part 5 of 12: Naming and Standardizing the Web

The HLFF Blog’s “Internet” series continues with part 5, looking at the contributions of several visionaries in organizing the internet.  Read more...
May 7, 2025 | HLFF Blog

HLFF Blog: An Introduction to Representation Theory

Learn more about the mathematics underlying the work of the latest Abel Prize recipient.  Read more...
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