Sloane's Gap... and some books

Haven't featured a video from Numberphile for quite awhile, so I'll remedy that right now… James Grime on the interesting "Sloane's Gap" and the OEIS here:




Meanwhile, the unpredictable Clifford Pickover is out with his latest offering, "The Book of Black" -- who'd-a-thunk-it! an entire book on, well, see for yourself:

http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/pickover/book-black.html

More to my interests is a new book entitled "The Outer Limits of Reason" by Noson Yanofsky:

http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-262-01935-4

Finally, my own look at Edward Frenkel's "Love and Math" is now up at MathTango here:

http://mathtango.blogspot.com/2013/10/in-love-with-math-frenkels-new-book.html