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Carnival of Mathematics 137
Welcome to the 137th Carnival of Mathematics! Let me begin with a story about pizza. I was at one of my favorite pizzerias in New Haven recently where they have the craziest method for slicing pizza: start with a standard … Continue reading
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Tagged Brian Hayes, carnival of mathematics, David Castelvecchi, Gonzalo Ciruelos, Kevin Knudson, Mark Dominus, mochizuki, Nancy Yi Liang
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Beware of Counterintuitive Results: Police Shooting Edition
Last week the New York Times ran the following headline: “Surprising New Evidence Shows Bias in Police Use of Force but Not in Shootings.” The article addresses a study currently underway by Roland G. Freyer Jr., a Harvard University economist. … Continue reading
Posted in Statistics, Uncategorized
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Catching ‘Em All Over The Place
This has been a weird week. People have been walking into traffic, trees and parked cars at an alarming rate while they compete to catch little animated beasties that are sort-of kind-of actually walking down the street next to us. … Continue reading
Posted in Game Theory
Tagged imperfect information, Nash Equilibrium, Pokemon Go
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Mathematicians On A Plane
Forgive the obvious humble brag, but all the traveling I’ve done this summer has me worn out. I’m posting to you from Hamburg today, where I’m enjoying some interstitial time between conferences. To most mathematicians, summer means travel, and travel … Continue reading
The Intrepid Mathematician
And that’s how The Intrepid Mathematician got me hooked. Anthony Bonato, a math professor at Ryerson University in Toronto who specializes in network theory, writes this blog dedicated to the teaching, learning, living and loving of math, as well as … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Bonato, The Intrepid Mathematician
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The Ramanujan Movie
I saw the Ramanujan Movie and I loved it. “The Man Who Knew Infinity,” came out a few weeks ago, starring Dev Patel as Srinivasa Ramanujan and Jeremy Irons as G.H. Hardy, it was a beautifully told story of what … Continue reading
Posted in Recreational Mathematics
Tagged Hardy, Ken Ono, Ramanujan, The Man Who Knew Infinity
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Functions Too Cool For Facebook. But Don’t Worry, We’ve Got You Covered
Today is the official launch of the L-functions and modular forms database. The LMFDB is a database containing all the relevant information about millions of mathematical objects. Set up like a Facebook for mathematical objects — by objects I mean … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Number Theory
Tagged Emmanuel Kowalski, encryption, LMFDB, Riemann Hypothesis, terry tao, Tim Gowers
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Math and Verbal Gymnastics
We are coming to the end of Math Awareness Month, whose theme this year was The Future of Predictions. A clever theme name, indeed. I do love when mathematics and verbal gymnastics come together. And on that theme of math … Continue reading
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Tagged Bob Grumman, JoAnne Growney, Karl Kempton, Math Awareness Month, National Poetry Month
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Packing Heat: The World Of Sphere Packings Is On Fire
Suppose somebody hands you a bunch of oranges and asks you to stack them on a shelf, I’ll bet I can guess how you would do it. You’d build a pyramid by laying down a base layer and then fill … Continue reading
Posted in Number Theory
Tagged Abhinav Kumar, Danylo Radchenko, Erica Klarreich, error-correcting code, Gil Kalai, Henry Cohn, Maryna Viazovska, n-category café, sphere packing, Stephen D. Miller
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