This Friday's Mix

1)  Ramsey Theory progresses:

https://anthonybonato.com/2017/04/05/breakthrough-in-ramsey-theory/

2)  Are you a math teacher who missed NCTM in San Antonio? Cathy Yenca will make you wish you’d been there:

http://www.mathycathy.com/blog/2017/04/highlights-from-nctmannual-san-antonio/

…also for teachers, Jo Morgan regularly offers up “gems” for the classroom:

http://www.resourceaholic.com/2017/04/gems71.html

…and perhaps taking one more step Mike Lawler offered up a long post with 10 “complex, rich tasks” for students:

https://mikesmathpage.wordpress.com/2017/04/09/10-complex-rich-tasks-to-recommend-after-seeing-geoff-kralls-shadowcon-talk/

3) The “Linus Sequence” via Futility Closet:

https://www.futilitycloset.com/2017/04/09/pattern-breaking-pattern/

4)  Alex Bellos explaining a slice of a Menger Sponge:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/apr/10/did-you-solve-it-the-incredible-sponge-puzzle

5) plus.maths.org has an ongoing “Women of Mathematics” series:

https://plus.maths.org/content/women

6)  Another amazing posting from Brian Hayes (factorials, patterns, number theory and more):

http://bit-player.org/2017/the-short-arm-of-coincidence

7)  Fawn Nguyen is incapable of writing an average post… she just opts to blow you away every time:

http://fawnnguyen.com/lillian/

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

1)  This week’s This American Life re-ran a segment they’d run earlier on the Dunning-Kruger effect (which has received a lot of extra focus since Nov. 8, 2016):

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/585/in-defense-of-ignorance?act=2#play

[The entire show, 3 segments, is once again fascinating.]