MathTango... : A Math Mishmash To End the Week

Math to enjoy after 33 weeks of Amateur Hour in the Oval Office and on the golf course:

1) Very brief article touching on math learning and ‘linguistic relativity’:

2) “Persiflage” gets a few things off their chest:

3) The September “Carnival of Mathematics” blog entry awaits you:

4) “Computational Complexity” takes on a “FiveThirtyEight” Riddler problem:

5) A nice listing of some math YouTube channels:

6) Blackboards instead of desks…:

7) Tim Gowers on the recent account of two infinities found to be equal:

…he may have been inspired in part by John Baez’s critical take here:

8) Someone named Evelyn Lamb wrote some math this week (as she’s been known to do), including this piece on the work of Michael Pershan:

…speaking of which, a new interview (covering some diverse ground) from AMS with Dr. Lamb here:

9) Keith Devlin pays tribute to Jonathan Borwein:

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

1) Seems like every week now I have a favorite tweet (and followup comments), and this week it may be this one:

2) ICYMI, the end of Project Cassini to Saturn, as reported here:

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