The Week Gone By

Some mathiness during week #16 of the Trumpian Debacle…

1)  Grant Sanderson has completed his “Essence of Calculus” series on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDMsr9K-rj53DwVRMYO3t5Yr

...help Grant continue such wonderful work by contributing to his Patreon account here:

https://www.patreon.com/3blue1brown

2)  For those deeply into set theory here’s a recent paper by philosopher Penelope Maddy on foundations of set theory:

http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/13027/1/MaddyFoundations.pdf

I interviewed Dr. Maddy here about 2 years ago:

https://mathtango.blogspot.com/2015/05/penelope-maddy-continuum-hypothesis.html

3)  The simplicity of social psychology research:

http://andrewgelman.com/2017/05/15/needed-good-research-hint-not-just-much-weight-given-small-samples-tendency-publish-positive-results-not-negative-results-perhaps-unconscious-bias/

4)  Fawn Nguyen teaching mathematical thinking:

http://fawnnguyen.com/euclids-algorithm/

5)  Don’t know if this will take off or not, but a math book swap via internet is being tried out:

http://drawingonmath.blogspot.com/2017/05/book-swap.html

6)  Re-thinking geometry to re-think time (via Quanta Magazine):

https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-defense-of-the-reality-of-time/

7)  Robert Talbert interviewed about ‘flipped learning’:

https://www.insidehighered.com/digital-learning/article/2017/05/17/author-flipped-learning-discusses-what-it-and-how-professors-can

8)  Numberphile talks about the "Wannacry" ransomware:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88jkB1V6N9w

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

1)  In case you’ve somehow missed it, some discussion of the Dunning-Kruger effect (competency/overconfidence):

https://aeon.co/ideas/what-know-it-alls-dont-know-or-the-illusion-of-competence