Friday, February 2, 2018

Friday Math Miscellany



While Donald & Melania are busy sorting out their marital bliss, here's plenty of math bliss for the rest of us to attend to:

1)  Excellent TED Radio Hour last week on algorithms:

2)  Canning efficiency (mathematically speaking); h/t @MathematicsProf:

3)  More teaching tips from someone named Fawn:

4)  Why Colleges Must Change How They Teach Calculus”:

5)  3Blue1Brown looks at Fourier Transforms:

6)  Who knew prime numbers could be THIS popular:

7)  Good or bad approach to ‘thinking outside the box’?:

8)  A blogger picks out 5 must-see math TED talk videos:

9)  Mathematics Rising on math, information, and consciousness:

10)  Moravec’s Paradox via DataGenetics:
http://datagenetics.com/blog/february12018/index.html

11)  Evelyn Lamb recounts her math doings & more for the month of January in her latest TinyLetter:
https://tinyletter.com/evelynjlamb/letters/stuff-evelyn-wants-you-to-read-13

12)  And if all that isn't enough reading material for you, plenty more in the latest (free) edition of the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics here:

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

1)  There are plenty of good pieces on Thomas Kuhn out there, and now another:

2)  Biotech continues advancing in leaps-and-bounds… $1000 hand-held gene sequencer now available:



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