Image: Julie Rybarczyk, via flickr.
$3 million is a lot of money, and five mathematician just got $3 million apiece. I’m not sure how I feel about that. Read more at the AMS Blog on Math Blogs.
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The Inaugural Breakthrough Prizes in ...
Image: Julie Rybarczyk, via flickr.
$3 million is a lot of money, and five mathematician just got $3 million apiece. I’m not sure how I feel about that. Read more at the AMS Blog on Math Blogs.
The Human Side of Computer Science
Charles Dickens, who inspired the name for “Pip,” the combined alter ego of bloggers Dick Lipton and Ken Regan.
Lipton and Regan write mainly about computer science, mathematics, and the history of those subjects, but they always put people first. Most posts start with a brief bio sketch of the person or people whose research they [...]
When Life Hands You Lemons, Make Fibo...
Mathematical origami by Andrea Hawksley.
Andrea Hawksley has a fun math blog! I wrote about it at the AMS Blog on Math Blogs. Check it out!
Fermi Estimation with Liquid Mercury ...
Stick figures jumping on Rhode Island, part of an xkcd what-if post by Randall Munroe.
The semester is over (sorry, quarter system folks, but you can get your revenge in August and September), and you just want to put your feet up and surf the Internet. Of course, there are lots of ways you might accidentally learn something while you do that [...]
Sniffing Out Theorems
Hector the dog is probably not sniffing out theorems. Image: SaudS, via Wikimedia Commons.
Patrick Stevens is an undergraduate mathematics student at the University of Cambridge, and I’ve really been enjoying his blog recently. He’s been doing a series of posts about discovering proofs of standard real analysis theorems. He writes that the se [...]
Climate Science Blogs to Follow for E...
A picture of Earth from low orbit. Image: By NASA/NOAA/GSFC/Suomi NPP/VIIRS/Norman Kuring (- Blue Marble 2012) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.On the AMS Blog on Math Blogs, I made a few recommendations of climate science blogs that mathematicians might enjoy.
Bad Statistics: Ignore or Call Out?
3-D pie charts are usually misleading. Image: Smallman12q, via Wikimedia Commons.
Andrew Gelman has been wondering how much time he should spend criticizing crappy research, and so am I. He wrote the post after a discussion with Jeff Leek of Simply Statistics about replication and criticism. Harsh criticism of preliminary studies could discou [...]
Geometry and the Imagination
The universal cover of a genus 3 handlebody, visualized using the program kleinian. Image: Danny Calegari.
If you like geometric group theory or amazing pictures (but especially geometric group theory), you might want to start reading Geometry and the Imagination, written by University of Chicago mathematician Danny Calegari. I’ve been follow [...]
On Teaching Analysis
Timothy Gowers, University of Cambridge mathematician and Fields Medalist, is teaching an analysis class this term, and fortunately for me, he’s blogging about it. Analysis IA is part of the first-year math major sequence at the University of Cambridge, and it is a rigorous approach to calculus at the undergraduate level. I am teaching a simi [...]
Why Should We Fund Math Research?
Image: Nick Eres, via flickr.
Cathy O’Neil of mathbabe.org has been writing about how MOOCs might change the face of math departments and, ultimately, how math research gets funded. O’Neil is concerned that without calculus classes to teach, math research funding could dry up unless we do a better job convincing the public and funding agencie [...]
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