A Few Reads From the Week

ICYM any of these:

1)  Last week there were several tributes to Richard Guy's first 100 years with us... including this piece from Colm Mulcahy:

http://cardcolm-maa.blogspot.com/2016/09/richard-k-guy-turns-100.html

...and this one from Siobhan Roberts:

http://nautil.us/blog/an-infinitely-rich-mathematician-turns-100

2)  "Mathematics Rising" ponders infinity:

http://mathrising.com/?p=1413

3)  Another of Evelyn Lamb's favorite spaces, Borromean Rings:

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/a-few-of-my-favorite-spaces-borromean-rings/

4)  A new issue of the wonderful Chalkdust Magazine:

http://chalkdustmagazine.com/read/issue-04/

5)  Interesting piece on how blind people perceive dimensions and number:

http://nautil.us/blog/why-blind-people-are-better-at-math

6)  Randy Weiner and Keith Devlin (BrainQuake co-founders) held a Quora Q & A this week about math-learning video games:

https://www.quora.com/session/BrainQuake/1

...and, in the first of a series, Quanta Magazine reports on the new trend in math and science education:

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20161005-commoncore-math-ngss-science-education/

7)  I see Gary Smith, whose book "Standard Deviations" I really enjoyed from a couple years back, has a new volume out, "What the Luck." I'm guessing, sight unseen, that it's another great popular read:
http://amzn.to/2dPOAiU

8)  The latest from Erica Klarreich in Quanta Magazine:
https://www.quantamagazine.org/20161006-new-algorithm-solves-cake-cutting-problem/

9)  And the latest mind-blower from Numberphile:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4k1jegU4Wb4

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

1)  From a recent RadioLab show (though possibly a re-run?), another segment playing to my interest in language and psycholinguistics:

http://www.radiolab.org/story/96063-searching-clues/

2)  Krista Tippett's "On Being" show on NPR this week is a replay of an interview with physicist/author Leonard Mlodinow:
http://www.onbeing.org/program/leonard-mlodinow-randomness-and-choice/6295