tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23603426708472093412024-02-22T14:14:42.768-05:00MathTango... <b><i>Engaging.... with the world of math </i></b>"Shecky Riemann"http://www.blogger.com/profile/07065658607024191185noreply@blogger.comBlogger356125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2360342670847209341.post-29794067598925766092018-07-27T08:00:00.000-04:002018-07-27T08:00:02.434-04:00Final Potpourri
NOTE: This will be the last ‘Friday potpourri’ or post at MathTango. With the country in seriously deep-doo-doo I'd rather free up some collusion time to work on expunging orange-puppets or others who find 1930s Germany peculiarly appealing (…also, got some reading to catch up on ;). [Math-Frolic posts will also decrease substantially for remainder of year, until maybe"Shecky Riemann"http://www.blogger.com/profile/07065658607024191185noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2360342670847209341.post-15397837440530471772018-07-20T08:00:00.000-04:002018-07-20T08:00:00.641-04:00I Would or I Wouldn't...
Wasn’t sure if I would or wouldn’t compile a potpourri this week, but in the end (and with NO collusion, mind you, NONE, noooo collusion whatsoever) here it is:
1) “The biggest skill to learn moving forward…” (h/t Gary Davis):
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/11/bill-gates-hero-anna-rosling-reveals-key-skill-for-future-success.html
2) A maddening puzzle passed along by Lior Pachter"Shecky Riemann"http://www.blogger.com/profile/07065658607024191185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2360342670847209341.post-41587389157699540052018-07-15T08:00:00.000-04:002018-07-15T08:00:14.665-04:00Further "Big Internet Math-Off" Analysis
Just continuing my earlier Round 1, off-the-cuff analysis of the Big Internet Math-Off competition, now that Round 2 is near closing...
Have been quite surprised by several of the outcomes thus far in the contest, either by who won, or by the margin of victory. A recent such surprising match was Edmund Harriss vs. Paul Taylor, with the former choosing to write about the Collatz "Shecky Riemann"http://www.blogger.com/profile/07065658607024191185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2360342670847209341.post-34335142903384562252018-07-13T08:00:00.000-04:002018-07-13T08:00:11.409-04:00Friday the 13th
hot air, anyone?
Been so busy this week watching Britain and U.S. race to see who can disintegrate first, that I didn’t have much time left over for compiling math bits, but here’s a few:
1) New Alex Bellos puzzle book now available in U.S.:
https://amzn.to/2u8RpkF
2) Null and alternative hypotheses:
http://statisticsbyjim.com/hypothesis-testing/"Shecky Riemann"http://www.blogger.com/profile/07065658607024191185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2360342670847209341.post-42959253168156598212018-07-08T17:51:00.000-04:002018-07-08T17:54:04.129-04:00A Little Commentary... The Big Internet Math-Off
Well, it’s not the Thrilla-In-Manila, nor the Olympics, nor even the Soccer World Cup (to which, as an American, I can only say ho-hum), but a perfect, that is Lawson-Perfect, summer diversion for math geeks devised by The Aperiodical’s Christian Lawson-Perfect — intended to crown the "world’s most interesting mathematician" (well, at least of the 16 participating — and as Jim "Shecky Riemann"http://www.blogger.com/profile/07065658607024191185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2360342670847209341.post-12857691176304732342018-07-06T07:45:00.000-04:002018-07-06T07:45:09.839-04:00Potpourri Time
And now for some math:
1) Sphericons!:
https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1012587894043750400
2) Frank Harrell recommends this piece on Thomas Bayes’ work:
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/thomas-bayes-science-crisis/
3) “The Slippery Math of Causation” (via Quanta):
https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-math-of-causation-puzzle-solution-20180629/
"Shecky Riemann"http://www.blogger.com/profile/07065658607024191185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2360342670847209341.post-22232674177805413652018-06-29T08:00:00.000-04:002018-06-29T08:00:00.896-04:00Time for Another Math Grab-bag
While the Donald was spit-shining his jackboots this week, I hosed off my Crocs and compiled another potpourri:
1) Interview with philosopher Clark Glymour on probability, causality, science, free will (h/t Sean Carroll):
http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/bayes-arrows/
2) Some interesting history on Cantorian crankery:
https://pointatinfinityblog.wordpress.com/2018/06/25/"Shecky Riemann"http://www.blogger.com/profile/07065658607024191185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2360342670847209341.post-15235062720010485172018-06-22T08:00:00.000-04:002018-06-22T08:00:02.270-04:00A Few Bits From the Week
The "I really don't care, do u?" edition of the Friday math potpourri:
1) Some discussion of statistics, and cause-and-effect (…and a recent book); h/t Frank Harrell:
https://www.kdnuggets.com/2018/06/pearl-gray-statistics-causality-claims-difficult-swallow.html
2) Prime numbers, kids, and math education:
https://medium.com/@sunilsingh_42118/"Shecky Riemann"http://www.blogger.com/profile/07065658607024191185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2360342670847209341.post-76540498349420961522018-06-15T08:00:00.000-04:002018-06-15T08:00:03.112-04:00Friday Potpourri
While the Appeaser-and-Chief was working out a few details for a new Trump Tower Pyongyang, I compiled another weekly collection of math bits:
1) A potpourri within a potpourri… the latest Carnival of Mathematics blog carnival is out:
http://aperiodical.com/2018/06/carnival-of-mathematics-158/
2) A recent video interview with Ed Frenkel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v="Shecky Riemann"http://www.blogger.com/profile/07065658607024191185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2360342670847209341.post-34726139395954948562018-06-10T07:00:00.000-04:002018-06-11T11:35:46.793-04:00Gary Smith.... Teaching In the Classroom and Beyond
Math-Frolic Interview #44
"Ronald Coase cynically observed that, 'If you torture the data long enough, it will confess.' Standard Deviations is an exploration of dozens of examples of tortuous assertions that, with even a moment's reflection, don't pass the smell test. Sometimes, the unscrupulous deliberately try to mislead us. Other times, the well-intentioned are blissfully unaware of the "Shecky Riemann"http://www.blogger.com/profile/07065658607024191185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2360342670847209341.post-8775704925438336672018-06-08T08:00:00.000-04:002018-06-08T08:00:05.463-04:00Mathy Things You May Have Missed
After pardoning myself for all the things I’ve said, or will in the future say (or think or whisper) about our dysfunctional (to put it kindly) President, I proceeded to compile another weekly math potpourri:
1) Eli Maor on math & music:
https://aeon.co/essays/ringing-the-chords-of-the-universe-how-music-influenced-science
2) Fermat primes and almost Fermat primes:
"Shecky Riemann"http://www.blogger.com/profile/07065658607024191185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2360342670847209341.post-28902210960907979152018-06-06T11:09:00.000-04:002018-06-21T05:44:33.885-04:00 Two Volumes….
My favorite form of writing (to read) is the essay. Books on single themes, no matter how well-written, invariably lapse into sections or passages that are redundant, plodding, or pedantic. The essay form is brief enough to be rich and scintillating from beginning to end, in the hands of a good craftsman.
All this to say, that even though it’s only June I think I have already "Shecky Riemann"http://www.blogger.com/profile/07065658607024191185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2360342670847209341.post-78448118626047568252018-06-01T08:00:00.000-04:002018-06-01T08:00:00.134-04:00New Month, New Potpourri
Just for a change this week I won’t open with any insults whatsoever of our Knuckledragger-and-Chief pseudo-leader… but simply go straight to the latest Friday potpourri:
1) YOU too can take a Harvard “Introduction to Probability” course:
https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-to-probability-0
2) H/T to Steve Strogatz for passing along this somewhat interesting useful page"Shecky Riemann"http://www.blogger.com/profile/07065658607024191185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2360342670847209341.post-38583209482938169262018-05-25T08:00:00.000-04:002018-05-25T08:00:02.953-04:00Yet 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"Shecky Riemann"http://www.blogger.com/profile/07065658607024191185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2360342670847209341.post-27660439043594612802018-05-18T08:00:00.000-04:002018-05-18T08:00:01.599-04:00Friday Potpourri
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:
https://"Shecky Riemann"http://www.blogger.com/profile/07065658607024191185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2360342670847209341.post-18278764558662006582018-05-16T08:45:00.000-04:002018-05-16T08:45:20.839-04:00A Few Potpourri Housekeeping Changes
To slightly streamline my own blogging time am making a few changes to the 'Friday Potpourri' that perhaps readers ought be apprised of (way back I originally conceived of the potpourri as a compendium of slightly off-the-beaten-track math bits, and ever since reading/enjoying David Wells’ quirky “Book of Curious and Interesting Mathematics” have thought of attempting more of that):
I "Shecky Riemann"http://www.blogger.com/profile/07065658607024191185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2360342670847209341.post-2899070809948679512018-05-11T08:00:00.000-04:002018-05-11T08:00:09.151-04:00Some Miscellaneous Stuff From the Week
Friday may be money-laundering day at the White House, but at MathTango it’s math-potpourri day.
(…when I can find time I’ll explain a few changes I’m making to the Friday potpourri):
1) Possibly a good thread for teachers to contemplate:
https://twitter.com/joelhogz/status/992518671607173122
2) Somewhat related, a few, brief teaching “meta-lessons” from "Shecky Riemann"http://www.blogger.com/profile/07065658607024191185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2360342670847209341.post-65652170801613482902018-05-06T07:00:00.000-04:002018-05-27T21:47:14.685-04:00Teachers In Our Lives
"Reach out and touch someone..."
-- old AT&T ad slogan
I attended (long enough ago that a 50-year reunion is "Shecky Riemann"http://www.blogger.com/profile/07065658607024191185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2360342670847209341.post-83875463725735239212018-05-04T07:45:00.000-04:002018-05-04T10:54:39.344-04:00The 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 "Shecky Riemann"http://www.blogger.com/profile/07065658607024191185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2360342670847209341.post-8473122426648272312018-04-27T08:00:00.000-04:002018-04-27T13:18:19.547-04:00Potpourri Again...
I’ll take a moment out from sticking additional pins into the orange doll that a local voodoo master-artisan provided me, to post a fairly eclectic Friday potpourri:
1) Latest IntMath Newsletter chockfull of good stuff:
https://www.intmath.com/blog/letters/intmath-newsletter-computational-essays-random-numbers-11448
2) …and more mathy stuff from this math education blog "Shecky Riemann"http://www.blogger.com/profile/07065658607024191185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2360342670847209341.post-86308749125105392872018-04-20T07:45:00.000-04:002018-04-20T21:04:12.432-04:00Some Math From the Week
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:
https://www.hambrecht.ch/blog/2018/4/16/what-video-can-and-cant-do-for-education
2) An online “first course” in Galois theory (h/t Gary Davis):
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1804.04657.pdf
3) As usual, "Shecky Riemann"http://www.blogger.com/profile/07065658607024191185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2360342670847209341.post-25418469117201427832018-04-13T08:00:00.000-04:002018-04-13T08:00:00.581-04:00Friday-the-13th Math Potpourri
Your guess is as good as mine as to who Cult-leader Donald might fire first this weekend, but I plan to stay busy catching up on some math morsels:
1) 5 book recommendations for philosophy of mathematics:
http://www.logicmatters.net/2018/04/06/five-books-philosophy-maths/
2) A little math history (of the “when-will-I-ever-use-this” form) about Huygens and Leibniz (h/t Evelyn"Shecky Riemann"http://www.blogger.com/profile/07065658607024191185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2360342670847209341.post-25621566287360395672018-04-08T07:15:00.000-04:002018-04-08T07:15:03.206-04:00Weird Math
A book blurb today. Usually I’ve heard/read some buzz about books I receive review copies of in the mail, and then have built-in expectations. Occasionally though a volume shows up I’ve heard nothing about, nor even seen the authors names before. “Weird Math” arrived recently as such a book. The authors, David Darling and Agnijo Banerjee are a science writer and math prodigy pair bringing forth"Shecky Riemann"http://www.blogger.com/profile/07065658607024191185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2360342670847209341.post-50550135686649421512018-04-06T08:00:00.000-04:002018-04-06T08:00:30.609-04:00Soooo 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/"Shecky Riemann"http://www.blogger.com/profile/07065658607024191185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2360342670847209341.post-8809674523737610542018-03-30T08:00:00.000-04:002018-03-30T08:00:11.243-04:00ICYM Any of These...
In lieu of any new porn-star interviews to enjoy this weekend, I'll offer up instead another math potpourri:
1) Free, online course on applied category theory:
https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2018/03/26/seven-sketches-in-compositionality/
2) Every positive integer the sum of 3 palindromes:
https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2018/03/26/sums-of-palindromes/
…another John "Shecky Riemann"http://www.blogger.com/profile/07065658607024191185noreply@blogger.com0