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"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, September 26, 2014

Weekly Grab Bag


Have some other projects eating up my time these days so another short-list of mathy links for this week (...hope to have another interview up on site, though, sometime Sunday):

1)  Correlation is not… 50%…. Jordan Ellenberg takes issue with some New Yorker statistics:
http://quomodocumque.wordpress.com/2014/09/20/what-correlation-means/

2)  Another voice FOR Common Core:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2014/09/15/common-core-math-education-standards-fluency-column/15693531/

3)  Keith Devlin talks about the 5th incarnation of his MOOC "Introduction to Mathematical Thinking":
http://mooctalk.org/2014/09/21/here-we-go-again-2/

4)  Who doesn't like math podcasts!? (…uhh, don't answer that, it's a rhetorical question)… anyway, Sam Hansen has a new kickstarter project to fund a second series (anywhere from 8 to 16 episodes) of his math podcast "Relatively Prime":
http://aperiodical.com/2014/09/relatively-prime-podcast-series-2-kickstarter/

5)   Colm Mulcahy, in the Huffington Post, looks at the math connections to 5 of this year's MacArthur Fellows:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/colm-mulcahy/you-dont-have-to-be-a-gen_b_5834768.html

6)  In the news: some (potential) math behind the Ebola outbreak:
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-09-26/ebolas-deadly-math

7)  Will end with a fun piece today from Evelyn Lamb on a friggin' failure from Fermat:
http://tinyurl.com/k8hxg6n


  
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