Maybe this week’s viral Laurel/Yanny episode can finally help explain how it is that some people listening to a certain Donald hear a purported President speak, while others more correctly hear a venal Demagogue blathering.
...In any event, a new Friday potpourri:
1) Michael Harris, interesting as always, on the uses and responsibilities of mathematics:
2) The 157th “Carnival of Mathematics” here:
3) Again, a hint of linkage between prime number patterns and physics (via Natalie Wolchover and Quanta):
https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-chemist-shines-light-on-a-surprising-prime-number-pattern-20180514/
4) More physics than math, but I’ll still include it here… The winning essay in FQXi’s latest essay contest asking “”What Is fundamental?”:
All the runner-up essays HERE.
5) Patrick Honner reflects on the story of his journey in mathematics for Story Collider:
6) Jim Propp’s latest, for geometry and Madeleine L’Engle fans, on “Time and Tesseracts”:
https://mathenchant.wordpress.com/2018/05/16/time-and-tesseracts/
7) Walt Hickey is leaving FiveThirtyEight to begin his own daily newsletter, “Numlock,” highlighting "the context and importance of the numbers you read about in the news”:
7) Walt Hickey is leaving FiveThirtyEight to begin his own daily newsletter, “Numlock,” highlighting "the context and importance of the numbers you read about in the news”:
…Potpourri BONUS! (extra NON-mathematical links of interest):
1) Hey Arachnophobes… don’t kill spiders:
2) Will just close out the week, as seems appropriate, by rising up off my Laurels to post a favorite old Yanni tune:
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