Soooo Much Winning...

While our Aryan President was busy (in-between rounds of golf) consulting with his ass-kissing, rubber-stamping sycophants, er I mean, staff, I toiled alone authoring another weekly math potpourri:

1)  Math as a bedrock to life… this is a few weeks old, but I only came across it last weekend:

https://medium.com/s/story/6-life-lessons-from-my-math-degree-that-have-nothing-to-do-with-math-d38aba90edfe

2)  Mathematical proofs and the mind, via “Mathematics Rising”:

http://mathrising.com/?p=1577

3)  “The Conversation” looks at prime numbers:

https://theconversation.com/why-prime-numbers-still-fascinate-mathematicians-2-300-years-later-92484

4)  Rock-paper-scissors and game theory via Patrick Honner and Quanta:

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-game-theory-math-behind-rock-paper-scissors-20180402/

5)  Catch up with Evelyn Lamb via latest issue of her monthly newsletter:

https://tinyletter.com/evelynjlamb/letters/stuff-evelyn-wants-you-to-read-15

…she also has a new post on books here:

https://blogs.ams.org/blogonmathblogs/2018/04/03/math-by-the-book/

6)  A simple tutorial on statistical correlation:

http://statisticsbyjim.com/basics/correlations/

7)  Some in-the-classroom thoughts:

https://lybryaslogoflearning.wordpress.com/2018/04/03/the-mathematician-in-the-mirror/

8)  Andrew Gelman’s post for April 1, was dead serious:

http://andrewgelman.com/2018/04/01/april-fools-post-dead-serious/

9)  In case you didn’t get enough math tomfoolery on April 1, Nalini Joshi pointed out this older page where you can get plenty more:

https://mathoverflow.net/questions/235008/examples-of-math-hoaxes-interesting-jokes-published-on-april-fools-day

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

1)  ICYMI, there appear to be 1000s of black holes at the center of our Milky Way galaxy:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/astronomers-spy-swarms-of-black-holes-at-our-galaxys-core/

2)  And from Twitter, no idea what this is exactly, but felt the need to pass it on:

https://twitter.com/BoringEnormous/status/980797758746611712