From Donny’s standpoint tomorrow may be the perfect Saturday for a long-awaited massacre; but I think it better for catching up on some mathy reading from the week:
1) A nice visual introduction to statistics for the right age group or knowledge level (h/t Max Roser):
2) Tying together math illiteracy and politics:
…and another piece on teacher Eddie Woo (h/t Egan Chernoff):
3) Wonderful interview via Erica Klarreich elucidating “Proofs From THE BOOK”:
4) H/T to Jim Propp for pointing out this recent great David Kung video from the Museum of Mathematics on “mind-bending paradoxes” (it’s long but wonderful and well-worth it, and may give teachers some ideas for the classroom):
(the entire series of “Math Encounters” talks at MoMath look great)
5) The mathematics of Gabriel’s Horn:
6) When Andrew Gelman writes that “the emperor has no clothes” he is one of the few NOT referring to Donald Trump:
7) An old ETS ratio problem via David Marain:
https://twitter.com/dmarain/status/975692996510404608
8) NOT at all math, but folks know I'm a Scott Aaronson fan, and yesterday Scott posted a long review of Steven Pinker's latest offering (I don't personally read any of Pinker's non-language/linguistic stuff, but still really appreciate Scott's take on this):
https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3654
8) NOT at all math, but folks know I'm a Scott Aaronson fan, and yesterday Scott posted a long review of Steven Pinker's latest offering (I don't personally read any of Pinker's non-language/linguistic stuff, but still really appreciate Scott's take on this):
https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3654
…Potpourri BONUS! (extra NON-mathematical links of interest):
1) Linguistic illusions… I found this recent YouTube video interesting:
2) And keeping with a language theme, also enjoyed this recent Vsauce video using a Venn diagram to talk about words:
I stumbled upon the above video, by the way, after seeing this Vsauce tweet from the week:
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