Yet Another Friday Math-mix

Neither I nor Donald Trump were invited to the big wedding last weekend; Donald stayed busy dismantling America, while I busied myself working on a fresh math potpourri:

1)   Richard Guy, still working and interviewed at age 100:

https://anthonybonato.com/2018/05/23/interview-with-a-mathematician-richard-k-guy-2/

2)  Excerpt from Deborah Mayo’s upcoming book on statistics’ “severe testing”:

https://errorstatistics.com/2018/05/19/the-meaning-of-my-title-statistical-inference-as-severe-testing-how-to-get-beyond-the-statistics-wars/

3)  “White rabbits”… Pat Ballew reruns (and updates) a post he originally wrote 10 years ago:

http://pballew.blogspot.com/2018/05/white-rabbit-mathematics-extended.html

(…a reminder, me-thinkest, of how timeless, interesting mathematics is)

4)  Of Math Men, Mad Men, and the rest of us via the New Yorker:

https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-communications/how-the-math-men-overthrew-the-mad-men

5)  Oh boy! Oh boy! Oh boy! Ben Orlin has a book forthcoming (it may be short on plot and character-development, but I hereby advise buying a few copies anyway):

https://mathwithbaddrawings.com/2018/05/23/math-with-bad-drawings-the-book/

6)  58 authors urge the axing of p-value thresholds in research papers:

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00699/full

7)  Meanwhile, I took note of a few books on my radar at Math-Frolic yesterday:

https://math-frolic.blogspot.com/2018/05/book-notes.html

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

Just a few favorite recent tweets:

A little Duchess of Sussex back story:

https://twitter.com/kharyp/status/997856668837924865

A tweet for Paul Simon fans:

https://twitter.com/Mikel_Jollett/status/999077222886486016

And if you enjoy podcasts in general, LOTS of good recommendations here:

https://twitter.com/shannonrwatts/status/996478329241845760