MathTango... : 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:

...and this one from Siobhan Roberts:

2) "Mathematics Rising" ponders infinity:

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

4) A new issue of the wonderful Chalkdust Magazine:

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

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

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

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

MathTango...