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"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, January 19, 2018

A Short Week-ending Math-Mix


A short potpourri this Friday… been a depressing week, learning that our Emperor may actually be healthy enough to continue tweeting and groping women for another decade or more…

1)  Margaret Wertheim on dimensions and reality:

2)  Latest from Jim Propp:

3)  And new from PBS’s Infinite Series:

4)  also new from Numberphile:

4)  A physicist looks at a math puzzle:

5)  Luckily, I wasn’t drinking coffee when I read Ben Orlin’s latest offering… or it would’ve ended up all over my keyboard:

6)  Michael Harris pens a bit of a tease at his long quiet blog (new book, or something else?… I DON’T think they’re making a big-screen movie out of his 1st book):

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

1)  On Twitter this week:

2)  ICYMI, the latest cover from Der SPIEGEL that says it all:





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