...a companion blog to "Math-Frolic," specifically for interviews, book reviews, weekly-linkfests, and longer posts or commentary than usually found at the Math-Frolic site.

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"Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show." ---Bertrand Russell (1907) Rob Gluck

"I have come to believe, though very reluctantly, that it [mathematics] consists of tautologies. I fear that, to a mind of sufficient intellectual power, the whole of mathematics would appear trivial, as trivial as the statement that a four-legged animal is an animal." ---Bertrand Russell (1957)

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Friday, November 3, 2017

Potpourri


Three indictments down, and what... maybe at least another 8 to go? 
Anyway, some math from the week:

1)  Gelman re-focuses on quality control in statistics:

2)  Nice piece on Karl Weierstrass’ monster from Nautilus:

3)  Fascinating Quanta piece on “The Atomic Theory of Origami”:

4) Mathematics Rising” looks at meaning and mathematics:

5)  Bill Briggs on replacing p-values:

6)  A wee bit of stock market/finance math for you:

7)  Evelyn Lamb’s “TinyLetter,” covering her doings for the month of October, is now out (hopefully by now most of you are receiving it in your email box each month):

8)  In case you’re not already aware of it, Vi Hart has begun a Patreon crowdfunding effort for her work:

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

1)  Intriguing piece on the linguistic evolution of words from the always-interesting Ed Yong:

2)  OK, along with the hysterical comments, surely my favorite tweet of the week:




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