1) I admit it; I rarely tire of essays on the beauty of math:
2) Presh Talwalkar on the United Airline fiasco and "Vickrey auctions":
3) Ben Orlin’s post this week highlight’s Cornell’s John Hopcroft… and China:
4) “Maths Anxiety”:
5) New provocative essay on mathematics from irascible Doron Zeilberger (dedicated to Reuben Hersh):
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1704.05560.pdf
6) Andrew Gelman has found a statistics book he actually likes ;) :
http://andrewgelman.com/2017/04/20/teaching-statistics-bag-tricks-second-edition/
7) Long, nice tribute to Bill Thurston (h/t S. Strogatz):
http://www.ams.org/samplings/feature-column/fc-2017-04
6) Andrew Gelman has found a statistics book he actually likes ;) :
http://andrewgelman.com/2017/04/20/teaching-statistics-bag-tricks-second-edition/
7) Long, nice tribute to Bill Thurston (h/t S. Strogatz):
http://www.ams.org/samplings/feature-column/fc-2017-04
8) Those interested, no doubt already know all about it, but just a reminder that the “March For Science” takes place tomorrow in Wash. D.C. (and all across the nation):
…AND, it coincides with the National Math Festival in Wash. D.C. as well:
Potpourri BONUS! (extra NON-mathematical links of interest):
1) Philosopher David Chalmers interviewed by John Horgan:
2) Love and sex researcher Helen Fisher on this week’s episode of Krista Tippett’s “On Being”:
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