1) “Visualizing the Riemann zeta function” from Grant Sanderson (video):
2) Couple of problems from DataGenetics this week:
3) Keith Devlin contemplates the secret of changing a bicycle tire and doing mathematics:
4) Andrew Gelman once again on Bayesian statistics:
…and in another post Andrew discusses skepticism in science, and the viewpoint of science-writer John Horgan:
5) Love the game of Monopoly?… Matt Parker & Hannah Fry report on some math behind winning Monopoly strategies:
6) I’ll drop a quick plug for a site I just heard from this week (but don't know that much about); an educational videos site covering lots of subjects (the breadth of videos and few clips I looked at seemed impressive). The math selections are here:
8) ICYMI, a few jottings I’d made over time, about Martin Gardner, General Semantics, and dysgenics, all came crashing together after the Presidential election:
https://mathtango.blogspot.com/2016/12/martin-gardner-helped-wreck-my-country.html
...and in a post with some similar underlying concerns, Brian Hayes wonders how we deal with fakery and truth in a world where so many people seem unable (or unwilling) to recognize the difference between the two:
http://bit-player.org/2016/truth-trump-and-trisectors
...and in a post with some similar underlying concerns, Brian Hayes wonders how we deal with fakery and truth in a world where so many people seem unable (or unwilling) to recognize the difference between the two:
http://bit-player.org/2016/truth-trump-and-trisectors
On Sunday, by the way, I’ll be squeezing in one more interview for 2016, right here at MathTango, so check back then.
Potpourri BONUS!:
Natalie Wolchover looks at where Grand Unification theories in physics stand today:
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