Friday, April 27, 2018

Potpourri Again...


I’ll take a moment out from sticking additional pins into the orange doll that a local voodoo master-artisan provided me, to post a fairly eclectic Friday potpourri:

1)  Latest IntMath Newsletter chockfull of good stuff:

2)  …and more mathy stuff from this math education blog carnival:

3)   “Arithmetic Billiards” via plusMagazine:

4)  Kind of liked this: responding to a tweet this week Ben Orlin wrote: “…gaze into pretty much any concept in math, and an abyss of analytic philosophy and implicit Platonism gazes back.” 
Ben is sort of a mathematician, philosopher, educator, logician, social commentator, historian, cartoonist all wrapped in one! ;)

5)  Leave it to Evelyn Lamb to expound on the linkage between poetry and mathematics:

6)  Gary Davis’s “Advice to Freshman Mathematics Majors”:

7)  “5 minutes with Vicky Neale” (author of “Closing the Gap”) is from a couple of years back (but I just saw it, h/t Bart Sabbe):

8)  Some current issues in philosophy of mathematics:

10)  Not often that the comments to math Twitterers give me chuckles, but responses to this Matt Parker tweet did:

Lastly, most know by now that I consider Scott Aaronson an American gem, and he has newly-posted a longish, thought-provoking piece on education (a book review actually) that I think everyone should read -- there's no math, but hopefully every reader of this blog is interested in our education system!:
https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3678

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

1)  Pretty fascinating discussion on NPR last weekend with William Blatty, original director of “The Exorcist”:

2)  There are fun tweets, amusing tweets, touching tweets, hilarious tweets, trolling tweets… and then just absolutely, crazy weird tweets:

[this fellow has a whole YouTube channel here:




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