Friday, May 26, 2017

Another Friday, Another Math-mix



Week #17 of Trump’s looting-and-dismantling of America….

1)  From Quora last week, “What’s the most important thing happening in mathematics right now?”:

2)  Futility Closet presented the Thue-Morse sequence:

3) Pi Hiding In Prime Regularities”… another phenomenal presentation from Grant Sanderson:

4)  Eugene Stern, guest-posting at Mathbabe blog, has some thoughts on value-added models for teachers:

5)  R. Talbert once again on flipped learning and his new book:

6)  A big “Math Teachers At Play” blog carnival for May:

7)  “One of the real old chestnuts of mathematics,” the Goldbach Conjecture, newly presented by Numberphile:

8)  Getting to the point that a potpourri without something from Evelyn Lamb is a rare event… and it won’t happen this week:

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

1)  ICYMI, Jerry Coyne on the latest ‘Sokalized’ effort to make the rounds:

2)  Terry Gross had a fascinating interview with Pulitzer writer Tom Ricks this week:
http://www.npr.org/2017/05/22/529516184/churchill-orwell-and-the-fight-against-totalitarianism

…lastly, I’ll just leave this here for any who’ve missed it along the way:




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