Friday potpourri is back... for now (no telling when politics and pickleball may intervene again to postpone it):
1) Evelyn Lamb on higher dimension sphere-packing:
...And Dr. Lamb again, explaining why the Menger Sponge is one of her "favorite spaces":
2) Nice interview with mathematician/Ramanujan-scholar Ken Ono:
3) Followup to Mochizuki's ABC conjecture proof:
4) Ben Orlin and his round-faced buddies on Graham's Number:
5) Data analysis of a disgusting political candidate:
6) Patrick Honner continues his analysis of the NY State Regent's math examination:
7) John Cook explains continuity, such as it is, in the real world:
8) The great writing at Quanta never stops... Kevin Hartnett on "A Unified Theory of Randomness":
9) Read about Miranda Cheng's amazing journey to sipping the umbral moonshine and working on string theory physics:
https://www.quantamagazine.org/20160804-miranda-cheng-moonshine-string-theory/
https://www.quantamagazine.org/20160804-miranda-cheng-moonshine-string-theory/
10) Mathematician, computer scientist, and pioneering educator Seymour Papert died last weekend:
...also passing this week, Canadian mathematician Jonathan Borwein:
11) And I got back to regular blogging at Math-Frolic this week (after 2 weeks of slacking-off) with posts via Kurt Gödel, Keith Devlin, James Maynard, and Battlebots!
Potpourri BONUS! (extra NON-mathematical links of interest):
1) "Active surveillance" of cancer diagnoses becoming more common:
2) More on China's cr-r-r-razy, jaw-dropping traffic-straddling bus:
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