Potpourri

1)  I admit it; I rarely tire of essays on the beauty of math:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/15/opinion/sunday/the-worlds-most-beautiful-mathematical-equation.html

2)  Presh Talwalkar on the United Airline fiasco and "Vickrey auctions":

https://mindyourdecisions.com/blog/2017/04/18/why-didnt-united-bump-a-passenger-using-a-logically-proven-efficient-method-that-delta-airlines-essentially-uses-game-theory-tuesdays/

3)  Ben Orlin’s post this week highlight’s Cornell’s John Hopcroft… and China:

https://mathwithbaddrawings.com/2017/04/19/school-for-one-billion/

4) “Maths Anxiety”:

http://www.resourceaholic.com/2017/04/maths-anxiety.html

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

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):

https://www.marchforscience.com

…AND, it coincides with the National Math Festival in Wash. D.C. as well:

http://www.nationalmathfestival.org

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

1)  Philosopher David Chalmers interviewed by John Horgan:

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/david-chalmers-thinks-the-hard-problem-is-really-hard/

2)  Love and sex researcher Helen Fisher on this week’s episode of Krista Tippett’s “On Being”:

https://onbeing.org/programs/helen-fisher-this-is-your-brain-on-sex/