Two for Tuesday

1) Here's a very good, informative commentary on Keith Devlin's math MOOC course (now at the 6-week point), from one of those enrolled in it; especially good read for anyone contemplating taking the course:

http://tinyurl.com/bqe9jck

(Keith is traveling right now, but it's probably close to time for him to weigh in as well with another update on the course at his MOOC blog.)

2) Overlapping a bit the Matt Springer piece I referenced a few days ago, here's another interesting post on the randomness of pi, this time from Huffington Post:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-h-bailey/are-the-digits-of-pi-random_b_3085725.html

Speaking of pi, I'll leave you with this wonderful question wafting in your brain (...David Wees recently tweeted it as coming from his nephew, and I of course love its self-referential aspect):

"If Pi contains every possible sequence of numbers, does it contain itself?"

(...I think the answer is pretty clearly 'no,' but still a marvelous question from a nephew.)