The Weekly Look Back

ICYM some of these:

1)  A brief look at the music-mathematics connection:
http://experimentalmath.info/blog/2016/04/why-are-so-many-mathematicians-also-musicians/

2)  Per usual, a lovely post from Evelyn Lamb, this time inspired by prime numbers:
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/what-the-prime-number-tweetbot-taught-me-about-infinite-sums/

3)  Timothy Gowers talks about the new journal, "Discrete Analysis," he is launching:
http://tinyurl.com/gqkwa2j

4)  Scott Aaronson happily reviews the new Ramanujan film (...and has ideas for future films):
http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2707

5)  Bill Gasarch reports a bit more on the last Gathering For Gardner:
http://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2016/05/some-more-bits-from-gathering-for.html

6)  A wonderful NY Times profile of Dr. Eugenia Cheng via Natalie Angier:
http://tinyurl.com/zlma2aa

7)  James Grime ("Numberphile") on the "pattern" in the last digits of primes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVvfY_lFUZ8

8)  Keith Devlin continues his lucid discussion of algebra education (feel free to forward this link to Andrew Hacker ;-):
http://devlinsangle.blogspot.com/

9)  One story getting a lot of play this week has to do with the illegality (due to "the Digital Millennium Copyright Act") of possessing or disseminating certain prime numbers:
http://tinyurl.com/jmxlw5q

10)  Alex Bellos reports on Adam Kucharski's recent popular book on gambling:
http://tinyurl.com/gvaqen5

11)  Quick look at an fMRI study of any linkage between mathematics and language:
https://plus.maths.org/content/no-need-words

12)  Andrew Gelman on the null hypothesis and "a random number generator":
http://andrewgelman.com/2016/05/05/null-hypothesis-a-specific-random-number-generator/

13)  Wow! combining the Collatz conjecture with the 'trolley problem' ;-) (h/t to Cliff Pickover):
http://tinyurl.com/gugkkpu


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

1)  Physics-gadfly Jim Baggott finally reports on the "Why Trust A Theory" conference that took place late last year:
http://www.jimbaggott.com/articles/status-anxiety-all-theories-are-not-the-same/

2)  If you're a David Attenborough fan then Ed Yong's homage to the great communicator/naturalist, on the eve of his 90th birthday, is a must read:
http://tinyurl.com/hqz4r2v