Potpourri

This week's miscellany:

1)  John Baez with lots of good notes/links on category theory:
https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2016/03/11/category-theory-course-notes/

2)  A series of lectures on the Langlands program from Ed Frenkel:
http://www.msri.org/web/msri/scientific/workshops/other-workshops/frenkel-langlands

3)  Tim Gowers' response to some of the recent popular press criticism of math education in Britain:
http://tinyurl.com/hx2qmbv

4)  Yeah, yeah, we had another Pi Day (...seems to happen every year about this time!), and plenty of postings, of which I'll just mention two (Vi Hart & Ben Orlin):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vydPOjRVcSg&feature=youtu.be
http://mathwithbaddrawings.com/2016/03/14/the-pi-day-recipe-book/

5)  Everyone probably knows by now that Andrew Wiles just won the Abel Prize, but ICYMI The Aperiodical covered some of the other mathematical awards given out of late:
http://aperiodical.com/2016/03/awards-season/

6)  Chalkdust issue #3 now out:
https://issuu.com/chalkdust/docs/chalkdust-issue-03/1?e=16395586/34110195

7)  Peter Cameron reviews the new Ramanujan biopic:
https://cameroncounts.wordpress.com/2016/03/16/the-man-who-knew-infinity/

8)  Another fantastic post from James Propp (this time on intuition, proof,... and discomfort):
https://mathenchant.wordpress.com/2016/03/16/believe-it-then-dont-toward-a-pedagogy-of-discomfort/

9)  Over at FiveThirtyEight blog this followup discussion to AlphaGo's thrashing of a human Go player:
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/dont-forget-humans-created-the-computer-program-that-can-beat-humans-at-go/

10)  ICYMI, I reported some of the links for the big prime number story of the week in this earlier post at Math-Frolic:
http://math-frolic.blogspot.com/2016/03/story-of-week-and-its-only-tuesday.html

...and be sure to return here on Sunday when I'll have up another Math-Frolic Interview, this time with a major math enthusiast from the other side of the pond as they say (no, no, not Andrew Wiles, but still a good one).

Lastly, my sympathies to all those who's March Madness brackets are already in a shambles, but as bracketologist Tim Chartier tweets, "Let go of perfection and embrace the Madness."


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

1)  A fascinating little ecological mystery from Ed Yong in Atlantic Magazine this week:
http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/03/mysterious-fairy-circles-australia-namibia/473625/

2)  Fine interview over at Retraction Watch with John Ioannidis on supposed "evidence-based medicine":
http://retractionwatch.com/2016/03/16/evidence-based-medicine-has-been-hijacked-a-confession-from-john-ioannidis/