Friday, February 16, 2018

Another Weekly Mathy-mix



In the event li'l Donald wanted to read some math this weekend, I compiled a few things:

1)  Banach-Tarski patiently explained (…by someone needing a job):

2)  "Linguistics Using Category Theory" via John Baez (a bit heavy reading requiring some understanding of category theory, but potentially interesting):

3)  Patterns?… “Mystery and Music of the Kaprekar Constant”:

4)  “Orthogons” via Brent Yorgey (h/t Patrick Honner):

5)  Probabilistic judgements via Quanta Magazine:

6)  Dave Richeson learning some math from his son’s Algebra 2 class:

7)  Tanya Khovanova offers a puzzle for our times:

8)  The latest issue of online journal Inference has some math-related content:

9)  Tangential to math, Scott Aaronson took a Wash. Post writer to task (on quantum computing) leading to a slew of comments:

10)  For those of you with mathematician spouses, Ben Orlin offered Valentine poems this week that could melt their hearts (… or… maybe NOT):

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

1)  The disappearance of airline flight MH370 is surely one of the greatest mysteries of my lifetime… and, we’re told, it could happen again (h/t Mike Lawler):

2)  Sabine Hossenfelder tweeted out this helpful, graphic link to rhetorical and logical fallacies this week:



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