Having pressed through week 32 of Trumpian antics, the math bits continue coming:
1) A Gödelian primer:
2) Evelyn Lamb on “Public Domain Math”:
3) Popularity of baby names:
4) Only a little math amongst a slew of cognitive topics brought together in this long Scott Alexander book review of “Surfing Uncertainty”:
5) Peter Cameron on p-values and Bayes:
6) Ben Orlin’s great tribute to his own colleagues (…while also making an important point about math education):
7) H/T to Steve Strogatz for citing this instructive old algebraic Quora post:
https://www.quora.com/How-do-you-find-the-positive-integer-solutions-to-frac-x-y%2Bz-%2B-frac-y-z%2Bx-%2B-frac-z-x%2By-4/answer/Alon-Amit?share=1
8) For those who enjoy such things John Urschel is doing a Reddit "Ask Me Anything" edition TODAY at 2pm EDT.
https://www.quora.com/How-do-you-find-the-positive-integer-solutions-to-frac-x-y%2Bz-%2B-frac-y-z%2Bx-%2B-frac-z-x%2By-4/answer/Alon-Amit?share=1
8) For those who enjoy such things John Urschel is doing a Reddit "Ask Me Anything" edition TODAY at 2pm EDT.
Potpourri BONUS! (extra NON-mathematical links of interest):
1) By now most of you have probably seen the letter left by President Obama for the incoming president before Donny Trump turned the Oval Office into a tawdry caricature of what it once was:
2) For pickleball fans, a compilation of some great rallies:
[...And lastly, good luck to all of you in Irma's path in the days immediately ahead.]
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