Friday, May 4, 2018

The Friday Mixed-bag...


Am trying something ever-so-slightly different this week and next, for the potpourri (you may well notice no difference), and will explain later, if I decide to make the change permanent.
In any event, with or without any changes, you have assurances from my personal physician Vinnie Boom-Bornstein, that this blog will continue to be “astonishingly excellent,” and he also notes that at a slim & trim 6’6” and 175 lbs. of taut, lean, striated musculature I am likely the healthiest blogger in the blog-o-sphere (though adding a little Propecia to my daily routine might be in order)….

1)  Some math inspiration:

2)  Always interesting how certain math puzzles go viral:

3)  A few recent stats items from Thomas Lumley:

4)  “The Fluency of Geometry” from “Mathematics Rising”:

5)  2015 stats on math majors:

6)  I dare you to ask what Graham’s Number equals:

7)  Keith Devlin once again fleshing out math-understanding versus math-calculating:

8)  A nice tribute to Stan Ulam:

9) “Robust perfect adaptation”… perhaps the math behind the biology of cells:

10)  Kevin Hartnett on zeta values and mirror symmetry:
https://www.quantamagazine.org/three-decades-later-mystery-numbers-explained-20180503/

11)  A couple dozen math jokes that, surprisingly, were mostly new to me:
https://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/math-jokes-you-wont-get?utm_term=.qppdN90WV#.sl2zWDmG3

12)  "The Incredible Palindromic Hat-trick" from Christian Lawson-Perfect:
http://aperiodical.com/2018/05/the-incredible-palindromic-hat-trick/

13)  WHOOOOAAA!!!:
https://www.futilitycloset.com/2018/05/04/a-prime-square/
(WWRD... What Would Riemann Do with this!? ;)


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

1)  Last weekend, NPR’s “On Being” re-played the episode with near-poetic physicist Carl Rovelli:

2)  Strictly for you cat-lovers out there, a favorite tweet from the week:




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