Wednesday, May 24, 2017

Ben and Jim Deliver (good Wednesday stuff!)


These are both toooooooo good to hold them until the Friday potpourri, so passing them along now:
1) Ben Orlin, a bit more serious than some Wednesdays, on “the three phases of the mathematical life” (competition, mentorship, and collaboration):
2)  Jim Propp on “Math, magic, and mystery” in this 36-min. video describing math being “liberated from (physical) reality”:


A couple of pieces I think might also make good adjunct readings to Jim’s talk are this Evelyn Lamb piece from a couple years back on epsilons and deltas:
…and this old Terry Tao piece on rigor and intuition in math:




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