...a companion blog to "Math-Frolic," specifically for interviews, book reviews, weekly-linkfests, and longer posts or commentary than usually found at the Math-Frolic site.

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"Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show." ---Bertrand Russell (1907) Rob Gluck

"I have come to believe, though very reluctantly, that it [mathematics] consists of tautologies. I fear that, to a mind of sufficient intellectual power, the whole of mathematics would appear trivial, as trivial as the statement that a four-legged animal is an animal." ---Bertrand Russell (1957)

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Friday, February 16, 2018

Another Weekly Mathy-mix



In the event li'l Donald wanted to read some math this weekend, I compiled a few things:

1)  Banach-Tarski patiently explained (…by someone needing a job):

2)  "Linguistics Using Category Theory" via John Baez (a bit heavy reading requiring some understanding of category theory, but potentially interesting):

3)  Patterns?… “Mystery and Music of the Kaprekar Constant”:

4)  “Orthogons” via Brent Yorgey (h/t Patrick Honner):

5)  Probabilistic judgements via Quanta Magazine:

6)  Dave Richeson learning some math from his son’s Algebra 2 class:

7)  Tanya Khovanova offers a puzzle for our times:

8)  The latest issue of online journal Inference has some math-related content:

9)  Tangential to math, Scott Aaronson took a Wash. Post writer to task (on quantum computing) leading to a slew of comments:

10)  For those of you with mathematician spouses, Ben Orlin offered Valentine poems this week that could melt their hearts (… or… maybe NOT):

…Potpourri BONUS! (extra NON-mathematical links of interest): 

1)  The disappearance of airline flight MH370 is surely one of the greatest mysteries of my lifetime… and, we’re told, it could happen again (h/t Mike Lawler):

2)  Sabine Hossenfelder tweeted out this helpful, graphic link to rhetorical and logical fallacies this week:



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