'nother Week, 'nother Potpourri

I collected these, so you wouldn't have to ;-):

1)  "Reflections on Paul Erdös" from AMS in this his centenary year:
http://www.ams.org/notices/201502/rnoti-p121.pdf

2)   A film made based on the Twin Prime conjecture work of Subway sandwich maker, and mathematician ;-) Yitang Zhang:
http://aperiodical.com/2015/01/counting-from-infinity-a-film-about-yitang-zhang/

http://www.zalafilms.com/films/countingindex.html

also, another wonderful popular press piece (from the New Yorker) on the 59-year-old, sudden-celebrity Dr. Zhang and his work here:
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/02/pursuit-beauty

3)  Still another commentary on the roiling that has followed Mochizuki's claimed ABC conjecture proof:
http://tinyurl.com/ouwbqxb

...and Mark Chu-Carroll attempts to explain the ABC conjecture to the rest of us... before concluding that "...mathematicians are crazy people!" ;-):
http://tinyurl.com/nd3scqd

4)  Here's some fun with "deflategate," if you followed the sports story of the New England Patriots' deflated balls ;-):
http://flowingdata.com/2015/01/28/questionable-fumble-statistics-for-deflate-gate/

5)  Need an introductory post on Cantor and infinity for some young person? Nice, longish one here (gets heavier as it goes along), including several videos:
http://www.science4all.org/le-nguyen-hoang/cantors-infinite/

6)  A really fun read, newly-posted at AMS blogs, from Evelyn Lamb, on some different aspects of 'sucking at math' (with links to A.K. Whitney's writings on "Mathochism" over at Medium that I need to further check out):
http://blogs.ams.org/blogonmathblogs/#sthash.Q9DMgkiM.wLJHa8Yr.dpbs

7)  A couple of tweeted lines this week from Steven Strogatz (who is doing one flipped classroom this term) that just seem worth repeating:

"The students are so alive and engaged in my flipped class (nonlinear dynamics & chaos)."
"My other class this term is not flipped. Feels flat, almost inhumane..."

8)  And an article on math educator Jo Boaler here:
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2015/january/math-learning-boaler-012915.html 

9)  The increasing tension between U.S. mathematicians and the NSA gets some new coverage from Science Magazine:
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/347/6221/495.full.pdf

10)  Meanwhile, for your funnybone, SolveMyMaths posted some Dave Gorman comedy about perfect, friendly, and sociable numbers:
http://solvemymaths.com/2015/01/27/perfect-numbers/

11)  As always, MikesMathPage: http://mikesmathpage.wordpress.com/


...NEW feature! (potpourri bonus): Last week's grab-bag ended with a side-note, recommending David Pogue's new "Pogue's Basics" book. I may now try to incorporate a "potpourri BONUS" each week, pointing to 1 or 2 non-math links I simply found especially interesting during the week.  Here are this week's selections:

a)  One of the most jaw-dropping science stories I've heard (out of SO MANY from NPR), about blindness, echolocation, expectations (the story of Daniel Kish)... an hour-long episode; if you haven't heard it try to make time for it and see if you find it as flabbergasting as I did:
http://www.npr.org/programs/invisibilia/378577902/how-to-become-batman

b) ...I could probably fill these "bonuses" with just NPR programs!! Anyway, the 2nd selection is the first (21-min.) segment from last week's "This American Life" -- perhaps the most phenomenal (almost bizarre) story I've ever heard of a misogynist internet troll experiencing a change-of-heart:
http://tinyurl.com/pkx4mq5