Mathblogging.org Weekly Picks
March 15, 2012 § 1 Comment
We try to read every blog post that goes through Mathblogging.org. For the Weekly Picks, we collect posts from last week that give you an impression of what the mathematical blogosphere has to offer.
History, Exposition etc.
- Bloghetto (translation) continues a series on Pythagoras with his most important discovery.
- cp’s mathem-o-blog made a small video explaining zero knowledge protocols for proving you can solve sudokus.
- Mr. Palomar (translation) explains the other bridges of Euler.
Education
- Random Walks rants about rationalizing denominators.
- Math Hombre shares student teacher work on calculators in classrooms and required blogging.
- Musing Mathematically challenged students with a questionless scavenger hunt.
Community
- At Turing’s Invisible Hand, Ariel Procaccia explains why he isn’t boycotting Elsevier.
- Travels in a mathematical world picks up a Neil deGrasse Tyson quote on being an academic, culturally.
Research
- At Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference and Social Science, Andrew Gelman discusses the difficulty of letting the data speak.
- Stephen Wolfram shares his personal analytics.
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