My calls to the White House are still going un-returned, so I’ll divvy up some math instead:
1) Ben Hambrecht on his decision to go work for Grant Sanderson and 3Blue1Brown:
2) An online “first course” in Galois theory (h/t Gary Davis):
3) As usual, Jim Propp’s monthly offering intertwines several interesting ideas at once while asking ‘What is a number?’:
4) A report on the recent 13th “Gathering For (Martin) Gardner” (h/t Egan Chernoff):
5) ICY somehow missed it, Evelyn Lamb’s first piece for Quanta, on an old graph theory problem and an amateur mathematician:
https://www.quantamagazine.org/decades-old-graph-problem-yields-to-amateur-mathematician-20180417/
...and, Dr. Lamb's latest "favorite space" here:
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/a-few-of-my-favorite-spaces-the-moser-spindle/
...and, Dr. Lamb's latest "favorite space" here:
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/a-few-of-my-favorite-spaces-the-moser-spindle/
6) Another take on the classic “two-envelopes” problem:
7) Pension math:
8) At Math-Frolic it was a week of posts (every day) primarily prompted by an old David Wells volume, “The Penguin Book of Curious and Interesting Mathematics” — a gem of a book! If you missed any of the posts go catch up now.
…Potpourri BONUS! (extra NON-mathematical links of interest):
1) If language perception interests you, a fascinating little piece:
2) And a couple of Twitter entries to end with:
a) This long, uplifting Twitter thread (h/t to Keith Devlin for me, though no doubt many passed it around):
b) And this one, because, well… koalas!:
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