Mathblogging.org Weekly Picks

We try to read every blog post that goes through Mathblogging.org. For the Weekly Picks, we collect posts in one category from last week to give you an impression of what the mathematical blogosphere has to offer. (Read this for more information on this change.)

Last week, we focused on ”General“, ”Journalism“, and “Institutions“.

Exposition

• In memory of Alan Turing’s 100th birthday, many posts went up last week. This week’s range of topics pointed us to three in particular. At the LMS’s De Morgan Journal, Barry Cooper writes on the bullying of British geeks, Maurizio Codogno (translation) explains the Turing Google doodle and at Dueallamenouno (translation) Roberto Natalini portrays Turing and the much less known Turing-Murray theorem explaining animal fur markings.
• The Renaissance Mathematicus portrays James Short. the greatest maker of 18th century reflecting telescopes.
• Degree of Freedom explains why a cube cannot be dissected into pairwise different cubes.

Institutions

• At SIAM connect, Shigui Ruan and Daozhou Gao explain their recent work on modeling malaria.

Journalism

• Ask a mathematician / ask a physicist answers the grand question if elegant formulas are more likely to be true.
• Francis (th)E mule Science’s News (translation) remembers Antonio Valle Sanchez.
• At +Plus magazine, Rachel Thomas invites you to some conic section hide-and-seek.
• At Amazings.es (translation), Salvador Ruiz-Fargueta explains the how fractals question our notions of dimension.

Enjoy!

Mathblogging.org Weekly Picks

We try to read every blog post that goes through Mathblogging.org. For the Weekly Picks, we collect posts in one category from last week to give you an impression of what the mathematical blogosphere has to offer. (Read this for more information on this change.)

Last week, we focused on ”Pure Researchers“.

Research

• Low dimensional topology continues a series about topology of large data sets.
• Konrad Voelkel shares an introduction to Thom spaces.
• At Alpha Zero Categorical, Jason Polak starts a series on linear algebraic groups.
• Felix Breuer designs a file format for formal sketches of mathematical articles.

Community, Art

• What’s on my blackboard? has captured some snark planning.
• At Combinatorics and more, Gil Kalai congratulates Tim Gowers to his knighthood.

Exposition

• Gaussianos (translation) explains how Zeckendorf’s representation by Fibonacci numbers connects to converting miles and kilometers.
• ∑idiot’s Blog gives you Latent Dirichlet Allocation from scratch.
• At Division by Zero, Dave Richeson found a nice puzzle with a squarable region by Leonardo da Vinci.

Enjoy!

Mathblogging.org Weekly Picks

We try to read every blog post that goes through Mathblogging.org. For the Weekly Picks, we collect posts in one category from last week to give you an impression of what the mathematical blogosphere has to offer. (Read this for more information on this change.)

Last week, we focused on ”Art“, ”Visual” and ”Fun“.

Art, Visual

• At Rhapsody in Numbers, Xander reflects on the Venus transit.
• Fibonacci Series re-shares the picture a Fibonacci light installation.
• Dataisnature portraits Nils Barricelli and his precursor to DNA computing.

Exposition, Essay, etc.

• At The Aperiodical, Alistair Bird explains where you should live.
• At Kali & The Kaleidoscope, Fade Singh reflects on 8 months of an amateur (in the positive sense) attempt at attacking the Riemann Hypothesis.
• At The Math Less Traveled, Brent invites you to prove a nice theorem about Fibonacci multiples.

Enjoy!

Mathblogging.org Weekly Picks

We try to read every blog post that goes through Mathblogging.org. For the Weekly Picks, we collect posts in one category from last week to give you an impression of what the mathematical blogosphere has to offer. (Read this for more information on this change.)

Last week, we focused on “Education“.

Projects, lessons, etc.

•  Without Geometry, Life is Pointless shares idea for a lesson on this weeks Venus Transit.
• Mr Honner takes a look at the mathematics of the NBA draft.
• Fawn Nguyen salvages a lesson on Roman mosaics.
• At squareCircleZ, Murray Borne models fish stock.
• At Teaching Mathematics, Dan Pearcy flipped the classroom for a lesson on circle theorems.

Community

• At f(t) – function of time, Kate Nowak comments on Diane Ravitch’s call to ask policy makers to take standardized test (see also the summary and discussion by Dan Meyer at dy/dan).
• At Algebra, Essentially, Emily Allman switches sides writing about her experience as text book editor.
• Drawing on Math reflects on state test prepping.

Art, Exposition etc.

• Mr Honner‘s math photography gallery has a new piece.
• At Mati, una profesora muy particular (translation), Clara Grima portrays Erik Demaine.

Enjoy!