End-of-week mishmash of math miscellany:
1) Medical tests... false positives and negatives:
2) Exploring Mersenne numbers a bit:
3) Donald Knuth wins the John von Neumann Lecture Prize:
4) Evelyn Lamb lists a few keen educational math blogs (for different levels) here:
5) Deborah Mayo on Popperian falsification etc.:
6) A review (pdf) of the latest volume from Raymond Smullyan, "Reflections: the magic, music, and mathematics of Raymond Smullyan":
https://andrescaicedo.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/smullyan-review.pdf
https://andrescaicedo.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/smullyan-review.pdf
7) Speaking of books, I wrote this week about an older volume from Keith Devlin that, if you can find it, is worth having:
8) And of course if you need more math for your weekly fix, you can always visit "Mike's Math Page":
Potpourri BONUS! (extra NON-mathematical links of interest):
1) One physicist's interesting take on the LHC results:
2) ICYMI, "60 Minutes" Anderson Cooper met playful Bonobos in the Congo last weekend:
...and lastly, perhaps my favorite tweet from the week (from @AdamSacks):
"The party of Lincoln is now the party of John Wilkes Booth."
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