ICYM any of these:
1) A fun new Numberphile:
2) Sort of a cool (unexpected?) factoid that Colin Wright tweeted out this week:
“Except in exactly one case, the digit sum of the product of twin primes is always 8.”
[The exception, btw, is 3 and 5.]
3) Andrew Gelman and Deborah Mayo, frequentism and Bayesianism:
4) New book on Frank Ramsey, one of the great mathematicians of the 20th century:
5) Nice tribute to Richard Guy, on his 100th birthday! (h/t John Allen Paulos):
6) Latest issue of “Math Munch”:
7) More of Cathy O’Neil and “Weapons of Math Destruction”:
…and here, Cathy on Facebook and democracy:
8) It sometimes bothers me when bloggers beat around the bush with their opinion… THIS isn’t one of those occasions (Gelman ranting on a statistics text and publisher):
9) Evelyn Lamb has suggestions for the "Breathrough Prize" awards (concurring in part with Peter Woit):
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/what-i-would-do-with-3-million-for-math/
...and here she writes about the "Pseudocontext" notion of Dan Meyer:
http://blogs.ams.org/blogonmathblogs/2016/12/07/the-pseudocontext-2016-deserves/#sthash.FnrubBQ6.1efYx5jT.dpbs
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/what-i-would-do-with-3-million-for-math/
...and here she writes about the "Pseudocontext" notion of Dan Meyer:
http://blogs.ams.org/blogonmathblogs/2016/12/07/the-pseudocontext-2016-deserves/#sthash.FnrubBQ6.1efYx5jT.dpbs
10) A new “Carnival of Mathematics”:
Potpourri BONUS! (extra NON-mathematical links of interest):
1) The issue of right-wing manipulation of fake news and Facebook:
2) If you missed this powerful viral video from the week, you ought see it, especially if you’re a teacher, parent, or student (…but warning, while it’s an important message, it’s NOT a joyous Holiday one):
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