While Congressional Republicans were busy mugging America, and the Trumpster occupied himself sticking pins into his Bob Mueller doll, I found these math stories to pass along:
1) Some of what John Baez is thinking about lately:
2) More analysis of the success of Google’s AlphaGo from K.W. Regan:
3) Jim Propp’s latest monthly offering (on “the roots of unity”) is up:
4) Risk-reward and innovation (…and monkeys) from Bill Gasarch:
5) Why parameters are problematic in statistics:
6) H/T to Egan Chernoff for noting this story/controversy I’d not seen reported on much:
7) Two from Quanta Magazine this week:
https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-find-wrinkle-in-famed-fluid-equations-20171221/
https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-mathematician-who-decodes-the-patterns-stamped-out-by-life-20171220/
8) And new video from "Infinite Series" (on topology):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdOaMOcxY7U
9) I’ve been reading a little more foundational and analytical philosophy lately, so this end-of-year book, "Exact Thinking In Demented Times" on such, looks interesting (and Douglas Hofstadter writing the Preface is a pretty good endorsement):
https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-find-wrinkle-in-famed-fluid-equations-20171221/
https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-mathematician-who-decodes-the-patterns-stamped-out-by-life-20171220/
8) And new video from "Infinite Series" (on topology):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdOaMOcxY7U
9) I’ve been reading a little more foundational and analytical philosophy lately, so this end-of-year book, "Exact Thinking In Demented Times" on such, looks interesting (and Douglas Hofstadter writing the Preface is a pretty good endorsement):
(Anyone already read it and care to comment on it?)
10) I re-posted a fun logic problem/riddle yesterday at Math-Frolic.
10) I re-posted a fun logic problem/riddle yesterday at Math-Frolic.
11) Shinichi Mochizuki’s controversial/difficult proof of the ABC conjecture continues its wild ride, having been submitted to a prestigious math journal… which Mochizuki himself edits!... what one writer calls “poor optics.” So even if refereed properly this could taint its wider acceptance. Stay tuned.
https://galoisrepresentations.wordpress.com/2017/12/17/the-abc-conjecture-has-still-not-been-proved/
…Potpourri BONUS! (extra NON-mathematical links of interest):
1) perhaps my favorite tweet-with-comments this week:
2) I enjoy videos of “Canon Rock” performances (the rock version of Pachelbel’s Canon) and recently someone sent me this YouTube of a young female Japanese drummer joyously going-to-town with it. So will sign off with this:
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