The nation presses on through week 32 of Trumpian antics… and the math bits continue coming:
1) Mathologer, covering a lot of ground in 15 minutes:
2) A compendium of math games (h/t Sherri Burroughs):
3) Two doses of Ben Orlin in a single week (I feel like a glutton):
4) NY Times obituary for the father of ‘fuzzy logic’ (h/t Steve Strogatz):
5) The latest London Mathematical Society Newsletter available online here (h/t Peter Cameron):
…and latest issue of “The Variable” from the Saskatchewan Mathematics Teachers’ Society (h/t Egan Chernoff):
6) H/T to Keith Devlin for tweeting out “please read” this March post by Tracy Zager (read the comments as well) on the interplay of math and language:
7) Taxicab geometry via Futility Closet:
8) Robert Talbert’s one-year plan for converting to flipped learning:
9) An introduction, from Deborah Mayo, to Charles Peirce’s take on induction:
[p.s… for anyone deeply interested in Peirce’s work, Jon Awbrey’s blog often addresses it:
10) The one-and-only Jordan Ellenberg is featured this week on the “My Favorite Theorem” podcast, and he explains a linkage between Fermat's Little Theorem and Pascal's Triangle:
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/jordan-ellenbergs-favorite-theorem/
11) Brian Hayes' latest book of essays, "Foolproof, and Other Mathematical Meditations" should start showing up in bookstores any day now.
On a side note, lest anyone hasn't heard, by the time you read this, and after a 13-year journey of discovery, the Cassini spacecraft will have crashed into planet Saturn this morning, with a lot of coverage on the Web (not of the actual crash event).
11) Brian Hayes' latest book of essays, "Foolproof, and Other Mathematical Meditations" should start showing up in bookstores any day now.
On a side note, lest anyone hasn't heard, by the time you read this, and after a 13-year journey of discovery, the Cassini spacecraft will have crashed into planet Saturn this morning, with a lot of coverage on the Web (not of the actual crash event).
Potpourri BONUS! (extra NON-mathematical links of interest):
1) Well, this Twitter thread gave me waaay more laughs than I was expecting:
2) For sheer entertainment, a Japanese Rube Goldberg machine on steroids:
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