1) This week The Aperiodical tweeted out that, "A little birdy tells us that Mochizuki's abc conjecture proof will be accepted into a journal "in the next few months". Hope it's not in The Journal of Irreproducible Results ;-)
Seriously, how does a journal even have room for such a proof, or do I assume they print summary and commentary, and give a digital link to the actual paper proof?
2) Short Thomas Lumley piece on brute force in 'linguistics' computation (with interesting quote from Geoffrey Pullum):
3) "Why Science Needs the Humanities" from John McGowan here:
4) Fantastic followup on negative numbers from James Propp:
(and next month he'll be writing about self-referential sentences, one of my favorite topics)
5) Andrew Gelman complains (I think rightfully) about Dan Gilbert's prior "inane" or "ridiculous" defense of social psychology's replication rate:
6) I'm not one of them... BUT, if you're a fan of philosopher Alain Badiou, worth noting he has a new volume out, "In Praise of Mathematics":
http://amzn.to/2eyDkUg
7) Wendy Menard encourages teachers to blog, and links to a lot of her own favorite math education resources/blogs here:
http://www.mathforamerica.org/news/enrich-and-enhance-your-professionalism-through-blogging
7) Wendy Menard encourages teachers to blog, and links to a lot of her own favorite math education resources/blogs here:
http://www.mathforamerica.org/news/enrich-and-enhance-your-professionalism-through-blogging
8) Two of my loves in life are math and birds, so, hey, how could I resist citing a blog-post that combines the two:
9) And there's always more weekly math-and-learning fare at Mike's Math Page:
Potpourri BONUS! (extra NON-mathematical links of interest):
1) From last week's TED Radio Hour this (re-run) segment of Margaret Heffernan talking about the nature of work:
2) And this is just one of my all-time favorite This American Life episodes ("The Family That Flees Together, Trees Together"), about the Jarvis family. It goes all the way back to 2001, and I find most people either missed it, or have forgotten it:
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