1) Natalie Wolchover with a math story most folks probably have not heard:
2) Fawn Nguyen doing what she does best… being Fawn Nguyen:
3) Re-visiting the “sofa problem” (h/t Cliff Pickover):
4) Using finance to teach math in high school:
5) Great interview & video with centenarian Richard Guy (who continues to work):
6) I hesitate to even cite this (am so tired of the subject), but another general piece on the “hot-hand” notion in basketball. I’ve argued previously that the problem, which seems to vacillate between debunking and vindicating, is not whether it exists (YES, it does), but the ill-way it is often defined:
One might as well argue over whether or not (statistically-speaking) back pain actually exists or is just an illusion!
7) You’ve likely seen a lot on the Collatz conjecture, but you need to look at one more Numberphile treatment:
…meanwhile, Futility Closet posts about John Conway’s RATS sequence:
8) P-values as “the tip of the iceberg”:
9) If you’ve never heard of 'quasisymmetric Schur functions,' well, you have now (h/t Egan Chernoff):
10) Since math buffs are often cryptographic buffs as well, I'll pass along this odd story of some code the FBI hasn't been able to crack in 15 years:
http://mentalfloss.com/article/93674/code-dead-mans-pocket-thats-stumped-fbi-over-15-years
11) And I touched on a few books in the last 8 days, HERE, HERE and HERE.
11) And I touched on a few books in the last 8 days, HERE, HERE and HERE.
12) Will end with one of my favorite quotes from the week; not mathematics, but from mathematician Jordan Ellenberg on Twitter ;) :
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"Let's run government like a business" keeps rearing its head, like it's gonna be Google, when we all know it's actually gonna be Comcast.
Potpourri BONUS! (extra NON-mathematical links of interest):
1) For the psycholinguistically-inclined, a fascinating, older David Mumford post
I just ran across this week:
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