...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 9, 2018

Potpourri


While the Colluder-In-Chief tries to consolidate his fiefdom and schedule parades, I consolidated some math offerings:

1)  Yet another profile of mathematician/hedge fund manager Jim Simons:

2)  Do Google searches predict Bitcoin prices?:

3)  Patrick Honner back in Quanta Magazine (on vaccines):

4)  Did you miss e Day?… Ben Orlin celebrated!:
(if you missed it, it will come around again in Europe later this year)

…and of course Evelyn Lamb will never miss any mathy-excuse to celebrate either:

5)  Statistics crash course:

6)  Tanya Khovanova asks… and answers “Why?”:

7)  More of Keith Devlin on math education and math application:

8)  Videos from the San Diego Joint Math Meetings in January have now been posted:
https://vimeopro.com/vcubeinc/jmm2018

9)  hmmm... flipped classrooms... how about flipped conferences (goes beyond just math conferences):
https://twitter.com/RuthLevine5/status/960823072306712576

10)  And a little bit of math weirdness from Futility Closet:
https://www.futilitycloset.com/2018/02/08/math-notes-118/

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

1)  The latest, and last, ‘annual question’ from John Brockman’s “Edge”:

2)  will end with yet another guitar rendition of Pachelbel Canon (…before an Executive Order gets issued commanding that we all listen to Wagner):




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