Week #25 of America’s Trumpian nightmare, but at least there's some wonderful math to distract us (including some more pieces I noted over at Math-Frolic yesterday):
1) Another ‘math-is-beautiful’ article, starting off with Maryam Mirzakhani (h/t Keith Devlin):
2) Neurons use linear algebra to recognize faces:
3) Sara Vanderwerf (who hasn’t used a math textbook for her students in the last 4 years) recommends some Web resources for the classroom:
4) I love profiles of mathematicians, and this has been a banner week for them…
a) If you haven’t already read enough about Maryam Mirzakhani I added several more links at the end of the initial post I did upon her death:
b) h/t to Nalini Joshi for pointing out this long, fascinating piece on Grothendieck:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/201707/the-mad-genius-mystery
c) If you don’t already know of it, Holly Krieger pointed out this “Women in maths” Facebook page (where she is currently profiled) a couple days ago:
c) If you don’t already know of it, Holly Krieger pointed out this “Women in maths” Facebook page (where she is currently profiled) a couple days ago:
d) and I’ll repeat mention of the piece I linked to earlier at Math-Frolic on the great Robert Langlands:
These are all great reads if you’re into biographical portraits!
Potpourri BONUS! (extra NON-mathematical links of interest):
1) Who knew!? The best song of all time is “Africa” by Toto:
(hey, DON’T write me, write Gizmodo)
2) The wonderful story of checkers, Marion Tinsley, and Chinook (h/t Jordan Ellenberg):
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