ICYM them, quite a mishmash of varied links from the past week (something for everyone perhaps):
1) Martin Gardner's more philosophical writings here:
http://martin-gardner.org/Philosophy.html
2) Who knew there was so much to know about the arrangement of dice? Tanya Khovanova filled us in on what she learned from John Conway:
http://blog.tanyakhovanova.com/?p=489
3) Just in case you've been living under a rock for the last year and don't know of "Ed Frenkel," another magazine article will inform you:
http://tinyurl.com/np3qlhf
4) Can't pass a week without some statistics-bashing (this time from Tom Siegfried, 2 posts):
bit.ly/1bVlpBr
bit.ly/1epNmxG
5) What you see is too often, what someone wants you to see… an important post about misrepresentation in data graphs/visualizations:
http://data.heapanalytics.com/how-to-lie-with-data-visualization/
6) Presh Talwalkar has posted the seemingly simple "Cognitive Reflection Test" on YouTube with some interesting information about it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZal6R895VM&feature=youtu.be
7) Psychology Today piece on U.S. math achievement (and computation vs. conceptual understanding):
http://tinyurl.com/c3ty3kp
8) Darren Burris is curating math Common Core commentary from the Web:
http://www.scoop.it/t/common-core-mathematics
9) Memorizing multiplication tables… good/bad? the debate continues:
http://tapintoteenminds.com/2014/04/13/memorizing-multiplication-tables-hurt-help/
10) And if you missed Ben Orlin's take on math anxiety, as perceived by others, you may want take an amusing gander at it:
http://mathwithbaddrawings.com/2014/04/14/anxiety-mathematics-and-words-of-kindness/
11) The April monthly math digest from AMS links to LOTS of good reading:
http://www.ams.org/news/math-in-the-media/mathdigest-index#201403-dyson
12) This news got a lot of play on social media, but in case you missed it, "mathematician" came out on top of a list of "best jobs of 2014"!! Hooray, and up 17 places from last year's list! (we can probably owe 13 of those places to Ed Frenkel alone ;-) Some of the factors in the high designation were: pleasant work environment, good job prospects, high income, and low stress. All you math-phobes out there take heed:
http://www.careercast.com/jobs-rated/best-jobs-2014
13) A nice little round-up of some April Math Awareness fun-and-games from Colm Mulcahy here:
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2014/04/16/a-month-of-math-magic-and-mystery/
14) I recently retweeted the below @RodBogart tweet, and much to my surprise it became one of the most RE-tweeted tweets I've ever done; it's an interesting li'l visual (hand-crafted) example of solid geometry, but I honestly don't quite understand its full popularity:
Archimedes proved:
Vol(cylinder) = Vol(sphere) + Vol(cone)
So I made this hourglass. pic.twitter.com/YVs8cPxF8c
— Rod Bogart (@RodBogart) April 12, 2014
15) If you missed my thumbs-up review of Jason Rosenhouse's "Four Lives: A Celebration of Raymond Smullyan," it's the post just prior to the one you're reading.
16) Lastly, I like math and I enjoyed painter Bob Ross, but have to admit I think this posting (from FiveThirtyEight), mixing the two, is overdoing it a bit:
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/a-statistical-analysis-of-the-work-of-bob-ross/
The very last line of the piece: “'The majority of people who watch Bob Ross have no interest in painting,' she said. 'Mostly it’s his calming voice.' "
And so, to close, for all the Bob Ross (or, ASMR) fans out there ;-):
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