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.

• Mathy McMatherson has some resources on teaching computer science.
• Angry Math gives a concrete example of Confidence Intervals.
• math hombre prepares for a talk about GeoGebra — with a purpose!
• At squareCircleZ, Murray Bourne challenges you to predict the future.
• At ThinkThankThunk, Shawn Cornally teaches calculus with glow sticks.

Community

• At dy/dan, Dan Meyer’s new series Ladder Of Abstraction connects with language.
• At MT|SM, Marshall Thompson gives 5 topics he’s bored with, and 5 topics he’s in love with.
• Park Mathematics looks for a unified approach for teaching mathematics.
• At Mathematics under the Microscope, Alexandre Borovik reflects on women in the violent world of mathematics.

Art, Exposition etc.

• Let’s Play Math! takes on the “multiplication is not repeated addition” debate.
• At Mathem@ticaMente (translation), Anarita explains why 0^0 is indeterminate.
• exzuberant helps you find mathematical photos under creative commons.

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 “Applied” blogs.

Exposition, Interviews etc.

• At The Laughing Mathematician, Thomas Wooley interviews Andrew Hodges, author of “Alan Turing: The Enigma”.
• Mr. Palomar (translation) concludes his series on quantum computing with a post on Peter Shor’s famous algorithm.
• At The Endeavour, John Cook explains how to computationally deal with logarithms of large factorials.

Community

• At mathbabe, Cathy O’Neill explains why mathematicians know how to admit they are wrong (in mathematics at least).
• At Turing’s Invisible Hand, Ariel Procaccia wonders about impartial division of scientific credit.
• The Geomblog features a guest post by Samira Daruki on the Women in Theory workshop at Princeton.

Research

• At Short, Fat Matrices, Dustin Mixon explains phase retrieval in quantum mechanical systems.
• At My Brain is Open, Shiva Kintali reviews “Elements of Automata Theory”.
• Normal Derivate explains the the modern two-sample test.

Enjoy!

Mathblogging.org Weekly Picks — on vacation

Pic by Klearchos Kapoutsis

We will be back with fresh picks next week.