Happy Math Links... and... Mother's Day!

A host of links to catch up on, if missed:

1) New books!!
Some philosophy websites are recommending: "Philosophy of Mathematics in the Twentieth Century" by Charles Parsons:
http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674728066&content=toc

New, slender volume from Oscar Fernandez entitled "Everyday Calculus" (Princeton University Press), looks good:
http://tinyurl.com/n5s8nhq
(link includes 1 hour interview with the author)

And also from Princeton U.P.  notice of a new paperback version of "The Recursive Mind: The Origins of Human Language, Thought, and Civilization" (more philosophy/psychology than math) by Michael Corbaliss:
http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10297.html

2) A 6-minute interview with math professor/educator Jo Boaler:
http://tinyurl.com/kut2amh

3) In the category of "some-things-never-change," this (re: math education):
http://thescamdog.wordpress.com/2014/05/06/letter-to-a-science-journal/

4) Nice Nautilus piece on Penrose tiles and quasicrystals:
 go.nautil.us/penrosetriumphs

5) Peter Woit reports a bit on the work of mathematician Daniel Quillen, bordering math and physics:
http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=6861

If Peter calls Quillen's stuff "pretty mind-blowing" (and he does) then I suspect others will find it so.

6) From Scientific American, another piece on the neuroscience of mathematics and beauty:
http://tinyurl.com/myqhxq6

7) New (36-min.) "MathEd" podcast with Canadian Egan Chernoff (aka MatthewMaddux):
http://mathed.podomatic.com/entry/2014-05-03T05_37_31-07_00

If, like me, you've missed most of these podcasts you may want to go back and check out some of the prior offerings (they look GOOD!):
http://mathed.podomatic.com/

8)  Really nice graphical representation of different math-related paradoxes broken into categories (h/t to Gary Davis):
http://wikibrains.com/map/53621d86e4b017c9fdee45c2

9) Dan and Katherine at "Math For Love" have produced a new board game called "Primo" based on arithmetic use of prime numbers:

http://mathforlove.com/2014/05/primo-the-beautiful-colorful-mathematical-board-game/

They need help via Kickstarter to put the game into production, so check it out.

10) If you're in the mood to have your mind stretched, then h/t to Patrick Honner for pointing out this Numberphile video explaining "Ricci Flow":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwOCqA9Xw6A 

11) I hope to interview popular teacher/blogger Fawn Nguyen in the near future for this blog, so am hesitant to even link to this wonderful 5-min. clip of her (a bit PG-rated), because it answers several of the questions I had posed to her... BUT, it's too delicious not to pass along!:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1P6AA_IEd4&feature=youtu.be

12) So MUCH rich stuff here --> the interviews of Martin Gardner collected online:
http://martin-gardner.org/Interviews.html 

13) And when you're finished with my link offerings, you can go savor the diverse collection of the (110th) "Carnival of Math" freshly-up at "Flying Colours Math" blog:
http://www.flyingcoloursmaths.co.uk/carnival-mathematics-110/

14) Finally, after causing some to fear for her sanity with videos of microwave countdowns, Vi Hart is back demonstrating again why people anxiously anticipate her videos, with a doodling explanation (her inimitable style), of "net neutrality" and the evils of Comcast, Verizon, etc. (uhhh, Comcast merging with Time-Warner??... is somebody in the Government NUTS!!!):



....enjoy the weekend! (...and let me know ASAP of any broken links)