A mishmash from the week:
1) Only a little mention of mathematics in it, but I enjoyed this interview with mathematician/physicist Freeman Dyson:
2) Some math book recommendations for children:
3) Brian Hayes on a conference for Mochizuki's ABC work, and connection to Fermat's Last Theorem:
4) Deborah Mayo honors one of her heroes, Charles Peirce:
5) Beautiful math theorems get ranked:
6) Rather timely, with the recent release of Cathy O'Neil's book, "Weapons of Math Destruction," last week's TED Radio Hour on NPR was all about 'Big Data':
http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/09/12/its-bayes-all-the-way-up/
...more neuro here, on math learning and memory:
http://www.medicaldaily.com/bad-math-what-human-brains-weakness-numbers-means-you-cognitive-health-398075
...more neuro here, on math learning and memory:
http://www.medicaldaily.com/bad-math-what-human-brains-weakness-numbers-means-you-cognitive-health-398075
8) And further speaking of neuroscience, in the "Too-good-not-to-pass-along-Dept."... this optical illusion that went viral last week (known as "Ninio's Extinction Illusion") -- one of the best and newest I've seen (there are 12 dots in the picture, but few can be viewed at any moment):
9) "The Most Obvious Secret In Mathematics" (category-theory-related):
10) This article (and comments) that John Carlos Baez pointed out on Twitter is fascinating (and scary, about taking down the Internet):
11) New book is on the way from Ian Stewart, "Calculating the Cosmos":
12) Last weekend I paid tribute to Alan Sokal:
Potpourri BONUS! (extra NON-mathematical links of interest):
1) From a couple of weeks back, an interesting little tale of music's role in a life decision for physicist Sean Carroll:
2) Coffee perks up engineering education (from NPR):
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