Weekly Wrap-up of Mathy Miscellany

1)  A little history... his own history that is... from Keith Devlin:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/58bb4169e4b0fa65b844b419

…Keith seems to be on a Fibonacci kick. He wrote a volume on the popular Italian medieval mathematician a few years back, and now has a new book out about writing the first book:

http://amzn.to/2n3A07v

2)  An excerpt from Luke Heaton’s, “A Brief History of Mathematical Thought”:

https://blog.oup.com/2017/03/defense-mathematics-excerpt/?

3)  The problem with science-reporting and hype:

http://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/3/3/14792174/half-scientific-studies-news-are-wrong

4)  Evelyn Lamb interviews a trans mathematician with a lot of interesting answers:

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/q-a-with-autumn-kent/

…and here, another interview with a mathematician (who is married to yet another mathematician):

https://anthonybonato.com/2016/04/27/interview-with-a-mathematician-fan-chung-graham/

5)  There's something about infinity! ....

One primer on infinity here:

https://intuitivescienceblog.wordpress.com/2017/03/06/exploring-infinity-part-1/

…and another from Aeon here:

https://aeon.co/essays/why-some-infinities-are-bigger-than-others

I’m currently reading Eugenia Cheng’s newest work, “Beyond Infinity,” so will have something to say about it in the future.

...and apparently Ian Stewart also has a new intro to infinity out as well:
https://plus.maths.org/content/node/6795

6)  Deborah Mayo reviews a bit of the p-value discussion over the last year:

https://errorstatistics.com/2017/03/08/the-asa-document-on-p-values-one-year-on/

7)  Ben Orlin teaches lines:

https://mathwithbaddrawings.com/2017/03/08/lines-beyond-y-mx-b/

8)  The 'connectedness' of mathematical areas, via John Cook:
https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2017/03/09/how-areas-of-math-are-connected/?

9)  There's some math buried in the curve of a child's early speech learning (h/t Adam Kucharski):
https://www.good.is/articles/first-words-spreadsheet

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

1)  Fun from the New Yorker and the retiring Bob Mankoff (cartoon editor):

http://tinyurl.com/h8uohsj

2)  Old, but still one of my favorite pieces ever, whenever I need a laugh (…which is pretty often these days). So read it and weep, all ye minimal Bauhaus clownfaces!: 

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-comic-sans-asshole