A short potpourri from week #15 of the Trump Apocalypse:
1) Yet another review of my favorite popular math book from last year, Cathy O’Neil’s “Weapons of Math Destruction”:
2) Pat Ballew has amassed a lot of great historical material with his “On This Day In Math” blog and Twitter feed. I suggested earlier this week that with some organizing effort the material could probably make a great calendar or book for math fans.
Any publishers interested ought to check with Pat:
3) Presh Talwalkar on Viviani’s Theorem, Sperner’s Lemma, and more:
4) An ‘intrepid’ interview with Barry Mazur:
5) Brian Hayes points out this mathematical approach to the question “What is life?”:
6) Today I blurbed briefly about 3 recent books:
...and just a couple of decades-old quotes to close out the week (...you know, for those too young to remember history, and thus subject to repeating it):
“Just remember that once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it is going to be very tough to get it back in.” -- John Haldeman (1973)
"We have a cancer within, close to the presidency, that is growing. It is growing daily.” -- John Dean (1973)
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