I read. A lot. And I share the five best things I read every week. I got back from a week long vacation. In my leisure, I spent time working on mathematics. This week’s topics are about mathematics and a cartoon.<\/p>\n
1. Manjul Bhargava on mathematics and economic growth<\/a> 1. Manjul Bhargava on mathematics and economic growth<\/a> 2. Hamming on the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics<\/a> 3. Are you a dish-washing robot?<\/a> (yep, this has to do with math) 4. Anecdotes about famous mathematicians<\/a>
\n2. Hamming on the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics<\/a>
\n3. Are you a dish-washing robot?<\/a> (yep, this has to do with math)
\n4. Anecdotes about famous mathematicians<\/a>
\n5. A funny cartoon with an element of truth in it<\/a><\/p>\n
\nMy notes:<\/h3>\n
\nManjul Bharghava<\/a> is a celebrity among mathematicians and won the Fields medal in 2014. In this piece, he talks about the connection between economic growth and research in mathematics. I really liked the point he made about how thinking about science and math allows societies and countries to ‘put together a repertoire of tools and techniques of understanding’. I also liked his point about ‘just in time’ research and the flow of ideas. I wish I could read the entire transcript instead of this edited piece from the Economic Times.<\/p>\n
\nIf you like mathematics, this essay\/talk by Hamming is worth 20 minutes of your time. Hamming is articulate and insightful. I learn something new every time I read this essay.<\/p>\n
\nA really good piece on learning the subtleties of the language of mathematics. I wish I could explain testing like this. I love the style of using sketches and words to explain complex concepts.<\/p>\n
\nThis StackExchange link is full of anecdotes about mathematicians. My favorite? De Moivre<\/a> calculating his date of death based on his sleep patterns.<\/p>\n
![A funny cartoon with an element of truth in it<\/a><\/p>\n\nMy notes:<\/h3>\n1. Manjul Bhargava on mathematics and economic growth<\/a>\nManjul Bharghava<\/a> is a celebrity among mathematicians and won the Fields medal in 2014. In this piece, he talks about the connection between economic growth and research in mathematics. I really liked the point he made about how thinking about science and math allows societies and countries to ‘put together a repertoire of tools and techniques of understanding’. I also liked his point about ‘just in time’ research and the flow of ideas. I wish I could read the entire transcript instead of this edited piece from the Economic Times.<\/p>\n2. Hamming on the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics<\/a>\nIf you like mathematics, this essay\/talk by Hamming is worth 20 minutes of your time. Hamming is articulate and insightful. I learn something new every time I read this essay.<\/p>\n3. Are you a dish-washing robot?<\/a> (yep, this has to do with math)\nA really good piece on learning the subtleties of the language of mathematics. I wish I could explain testing like this. I love the style of using sketches and words to explain complex concepts.<\/p>\n4. Anecdotes about famous mathematicians<\/a>\nThis StackExchange link is full of anecdotes about mathematicians. My favorite? De Moivre<\/a> calculating his date of death based on his sleep patterns.<\/p>\n5. A funny cartoon with an element of truth in it<\/a>\nThis cartoon is one for my stash. There is sadly an element of truth in this picture.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I read. A lot. And I share the five best things I read every week. I got back from a week long vacation. In my leisure, I spent time working on mathematics. This week’s topics are about mathematics and a cartoon. 1. Manjul Bhargava on mathematics and economic growth 2. Hamming on the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics 3. Are you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2321"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2324,"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321\/revisions\/2324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/B7CcHNKCYAAIZUu.jpg\"){kind=link}