A Very Few Math Bits From the Week

Some of the math bits that interrupted this week's stream of demagoguery:

1)  Alex Bellos’ latest book, “Puzzle Ninja”:

http://amzn.to/2gIsE8b

(I don’t believe it’s in American bookstores yet, and when it is, may show up under a different title as British math books often do)

2)  Just in time for your next cocktail chatter… ;) David Butler tweeted this week: “For every prime after 66600049, you can cross out some of its digits and find a smaller prime.”

https://twitter.com/DavidKButlerUoA/status/920063992608866305

3)  For “World Maths Day,” The Royal Society highlights 66 mathematicians:

https://www.facebook.com/pg/theroyalsociety/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1288153661217166

4)  Our computer overlords are on the way… a couple of write-ups on the stunning progress of AlphaGoZero:

https://www.quantamagazine.org/artificial-intelligence-learns-to-learn-entirely-on-its-own-20171018/

https://deepmind.com/blog/alphago-zero-learning-scratch/

5)  The Pythagorean Theorem as you may not have seen it discussed before (from “Better Explained”):

https://betterexplained.com/articles/math-wisdom/

6)  Brand new issue of Chalkdust magazine now online:

http://chalkdustmagazine.com/read/issue-06/

7)  Arguing in favor of research p-values < 0.005:

https://theconversation.com/a-statistical-fix-for-the-replication-crisis-in-science-84896

8)  In a week when I didn't expect to have much to post at Math-Frolic, I ended up with 3 posts, including today involving Scott Aaronson.

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

1)  Steven Wright quotes (just because):

http://www.azquotes.com/author/15977-Steven_Wright

2)  And as we all know nothing is written in stone… er, uh, ohh, wait….