A short list of picks from the week:
1) A few frequently asked questions/answers from John Cook:
1) A few frequently asked questions/answers from John Cook:
2) Alex Bellos presents one of the all-time greatest, most contentious paradoxes (Newcomb’s):
3) A newly-discovered prime number:
4) Interesting piece on (mathematician) Jim Simon’s incredible Medallion Fund (h/t Steven Strogatz):
5) Evelyn Lamb suggests some possible videos for generating math discussion at the secondary level:
…and in one of her more complex/weird “favorite spaces,” Dr. Lamb explains “lexicographic ordering on the unit square”:
Potpourri BONUS! (extra NON-mathematical links of interest):
1) My own interests in philosophy are fairly narrow, but the five (2016) books recommended in this long post look interesting (h/t Graham Farmelo):
2) A paper called (by it’s AUTHOR) “a steaming pile of dung from start to meaningless finish” is retracted from a journal:
(folks, you can’t make this stuff up… or, maybe in a sense, you can!)
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