...a companion blog to "Math-Frolic," specifically for interviews, book reviews, weekly-linkfests, and longer posts or commentary than usually found at the Math-Frolic site.

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"I have come to believe, though very reluctantly, that it [mathematics] consists of tautologies. I fear that, to a mind of sufficient intellectual power, the whole of mathematics would appear trivial, as trivial as the statement that a four-legged animal is an animal." ---Bertrand Russell (1957)

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Friday, November 25, 2016

Thanksgiving Leftovers For the Math Crowd


Another foreshortened weekly potpourri:

1)  Sierpinski numbers:

2)  More post-election stuff from Andrew Gelman:

...and from Allen Downey here:

3)  Physicist Adam Frank now finds statistics interesting:
4)  The "mathematics of overhang'" from Quanta:
5)  Favorite sets from Chalkdust Magazine (tennis fans won't be disappointed!):
6)  Another edition of "Faculty Lounge Math":
7)  And ICYMI, earlier in week, as a public service, I interviewed the U.S.'s President-elect (such-as-it-were) ;-) :

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



1)  Most of Sean Carroll's October Gifford Lectures on "Natural Theology" have now been posted at his blog:

2)  Been a hectic, disquieting couple of weeks, so will just close out with a little calming music:





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