While tax, draft, and responsibility-evader Donald played President for another week I pieced together the last potpourri of the year:
1) 3blue1brown was joined by some of your favorite videographers last week for this topological puzzle:
2) As always, Brian Hayes continues to cover the most pressing issues of the day ;) :
3) News for KenKen fans:
4) 3 geometry puzzlers via Alex Bellos/Guardian:
5) Russell’s Paradox... and centuries earlier “Panza’s” paradox (from Don Quixote):
6) Fantastic and timely piece from Evelyn Lamb this week on the ABC conjecture:
7) Luckily, since by now you all already follow Ben Orlin, there’s no need for me to link to this latest post of his looking ahead to 2018:
8) One overview of the year gone by in math:
https://blogs.ams.org/blogonmathblogs/2017/12/25/best-and-worst-of-2017/
9) The final 2017 'My Favorite Theorem' podcast highlights a professor from my own alma mater:
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/ami-radunskayas-favorite-theorem/
10) And a lovely post about math entrancement (it's a couple of months old, but just tweeted out by Nalini Joshi & Peter Price this morning):
http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/to-sir-with-love-the-story-of-a-maths-teacher-and-his-passion/article19820885.ece
https://blogs.ams.org/blogonmathblogs/2017/12/25/best-and-worst-of-2017/
9) The final 2017 'My Favorite Theorem' podcast highlights a professor from my own alma mater:
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/ami-radunskayas-favorite-theorem/
10) And a lovely post about math entrancement (it's a couple of months old, but just tweeted out by Nalini Joshi & Peter Price this morning):
http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/to-sir-with-love-the-story-of-a-maths-teacher-and-his-passion/article19820885.ece
…Potpourri BONUS! (extra NON-mathematical links of interest):
1) Too late for me and my mouthful of mercury-amalgam fillings, but thought this was interesting:
2) Finally, since I often tout books here, I’ll add another, just not a math book — haven’t read it myself, but a well-read friend of mine tells me that Robert Sapolsky’s (evolutionary biologist) “Behave” is THE best book, bar none, he has ever read. That’s good enough for me to give it a look. Just passing it along.
…also, currently reading/enjoying “The Jazz of Physics,” by Stephon Alexander, newly out in paperback.
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