1) Introduction to category theory:
2) This week the #LoveYourMath hashtag on Twitter was interesting, recounting people's early math inspirations:
3) New interview with Sir Timothy Gowers:
...and here another interview with Ken Ono:
4) Another couple of twin primes found (can't say I've verified them yet though ;) :
5) Vi Hart's latest weekly newsletter:
6) Evelyn Lamb lists all her posts that intersect of math and art:
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/math-art-to-love/
7) Math Munch's month-end re-cap of their Facebook postings:
https://mathmunch.org/2016/09/29/the-dice-lab-sum-of-cubes-and-double-polyhedra/
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/math-art-to-love/
7) Math Munch's month-end re-cap of their Facebook postings:
https://mathmunch.org/2016/09/29/the-dice-lab-sum-of-cubes-and-double-polyhedra/
8) And finally, for your light reading of the weekend (NOT!) this piece on Mochizuki's Inter-universal Teichmuller Theory (h/t Ed Frenkel):
http://inference-review.com/article/fukugen
...and in the same issue, this on Cantor's diagonalization argument:
http://inference-review.com/article/cantors-diagonalization-method
http://inference-review.com/article/fukugen
...and in the same issue, this on Cantor's diagonalization argument:
http://inference-review.com/article/cantors-diagonalization-method
Potpourri BONUS! (extra NON-mathematical links of interest):
1) Last weekend's TED Radio Hour (NPR) was a re-run, but if you missed this humorous, touching segment from Julia Sweeney it's worth a listen:
2) Maria Popova's favorite story from The Moth (& Janna Levin):
ow.ly/GY6D304y061
[sidenote: am busy with a (non-math) project for a couple more weeks, and weekly blogposts at Math-Frolic might be thin for the interim.]
[sidenote: am busy with a (non-math) project for a couple more weeks, and weekly blogposts at Math-Frolic might be thin for the interim.]
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