It's week #22 of America-as-a-global-laughingstock, and, here's a li'l math:
1) Interview with Aussie mathematician David Roberts:
2) A former child prodigy writes about the movie “Gifted” and being a math prodigy (h/t Jordan Ellenberg):
3) Recommended books on game theory (h/t Emmanuel Derman):
4) The Futility Closet podcast this week paid tribute to Paul Erdös:
5) Confidence intervals and other statistical ranges:
6) John Baez reports on “Cleo”:
7) Another wonderful math profile (from Quanta):
8) Robert Talbert on problems with the definition of “flipped learning”:
9) New from Numberphile, mathematics vs. physics:
10) Latest "Bulletin of the AMS" here (h/t Steve Strogatz):
http://www.ams.org/journals/bull/2017-54-03/
11) Gelman on Ioannidis and published research findings:
http://andrewgelman.com/2017/06/29/lets-stop-talking-published-research-findings-true-false/
...and his own followup post here:
http://andrewgelman.com/2017/06/29/lets-stop-talking-published-research-findings-true-false-2/
12) Latest podcast from "Relatively Prime" is all about communicating mathematics:
http://relprime.com/talkingthetalk/
11) Gelman on Ioannidis and published research findings:
http://andrewgelman.com/2017/06/29/lets-stop-talking-published-research-findings-true-false/
...and his own followup post here:
http://andrewgelman.com/2017/06/29/lets-stop-talking-published-research-findings-true-false-2/
12) Latest podcast from "Relatively Prime" is all about communicating mathematics:
http://relprime.com/talkingthetalk/
Potpourri BONUS! (extra NON-mathematical links of interest):
1) I've been rather distracted this week by a likely June 9th abduction case in central Illinois (near my original hometown) that gets odder as time goes on:
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