Mathblogging.org Weekly Picks

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.

Exposition, Art

•  Tito Eliatron Dixit (translation) indulges in transcendental meditation on e and π. 
• Calculus VII explains how to generate any pattern in a fraction’s decimal expansion (like the recently hyped 1/998001).
• Intersections shares a poem by Wislawa Szymborska.

Education

• Division by Zero shares some student assignments on parametric curves.

Community

• cp’s mathem-o-blog recaps February’s Newcastle MathsJam.
• Geometry and the Imaginitation remembers Harsh Pittie through his classic book on foliations.

Research

• Shtetl-Optimized visits D-Wave and finds more than a roast-beef sandwhich.
• Freakonometrics explains the importance of visualization in regression analysis.

Enjoy!

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