Your guess is as good as mine as to who Cult-leader Donald might fire first this weekend, but I plan to stay busy catching up on some math morsels:
1) 5 book recommendations for philosophy of mathematics:
2) A little math history (of the “when-will-I-ever-use-this” form) about Huygens and Leibniz (h/t Evelyn Lamb):
3) Math, physics, geometry, symmetry… via Kevin Hartnett:
4) Wonderful interview with Cathy O’Neil on the need for “a hippocratic oath with teeth” in data science; very timely with current Facebook woes (unfortunately, at end, I don’t feel, and she does’t sound, all that optimistic :-/ ):
5) A follow-up to John Cook’s earlier post that every positive integer is the sum of 3 palindromic numbers (I don’t know, is it a stretch to say this almost has a Fourier transform ‘feel’ to it?):
6) Natalie Wolchover interviews statistician Donald Richards:
7) Scott Aaronson on some recent progress regarding a couple of open problems:
8) Andrew Gelman takes a social psychology study to task over ‘truth versus inference’:
9) For more math-reads, a wonderful new “Carnival of Mathematics” from Theorem of the Day:
http://www.theoremoftheday.org/SpecialEvents/CoM156.html
side-note... am currently reading "The Calculus Story" by David Acheson -- new, slim little volume, bought on a whim, but halfway in am enjoying it more than expected as a succinct, clear introduction to basic calculus concepts for the right student or layperson.
side-note... am currently reading "The Calculus Story" by David Acheson -- new, slim little volume, bought on a whim, but halfway in am enjoying it more than expected as a succinct, clear introduction to basic calculus concepts for the right student or layperson.
…Potpourri BONUS! (extra NON-mathematical links of interest):
1) Last weekend Krista Tippett replayed her delightful “On Being” episode (from a few years back) with Helen Fisher on love, sex, relationships, the human brain:
2) Occasionally, believe-it-or-not, Twitter can help restore one's hope in humanity:
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