Favorite Numberphile Videos....

 I haven't looked these all over, but I don't doubt it makes for a nice little selection:

https://beautyofmathematics.com/favorite-video-every-year-numberphile/

A Sphere In Any Other Dimension Is Still A Sphere

Can spheres be spiky? According to Matt Parker yes they can, once you escape your puny 3-dimensional world:

Of Math and Physics

From Numberphile once again, this time on physics and math, for a general audience:

Derangement

James Grime is a bit deranged in this recent Numberphile episode (or maybe he's a bit deranged in any Numberphile episode… and I mean that in a good way!):

Linear and Angular Momentum...

Another fascinating video from Tadashi Tokieda and Numberphile:



All his wonderful videos are here:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt5AfwLFPxWI9eDSJREzp1wvOJsjt23H_

Exquisite 12+ Minutes

Just another GREAT offering from those wonderful folks over at Numberphile today, this time on the Riemann Hypothesis, zeta function, and L-functions:




Meanwhile, over at MathTango I've been feelin' the burn of Jason Wilkes' unconventional treatise on math instruction:
http://mathtango.blogspot.com/2016/05/feel-burn.html

Not even sure what to title this!!?

Wonderful dot patterns....

Wow!. Yesterday, Patrick Honner tweeted out a link to this fabulous, freaky Numberphile video from December that I missed. Of course, all the Numberphile clips are great, but this is already one of my favorites (Patrick called it "mind-blowing")... seems like it perhaps crosses the boundaries of several mathematical/cognitive fields:

The Topology of DNA

New from Numberphile; amazing stuff (of life):

Ubiquitous Benford

Princeton University Press presents this offering on Benford's law:
http://tinyurl.com/qhfmccy

...and Benford also shines through in this recent video from Numberphile discussing the powers of 2:

The Monster That Lurks

Not sure which I love more about this Numberphile offering... Tim Burness's step-by-step explanation of the "Monster Group" (with it's almost 200,000 dimensions) or John Conway's sheer astonishment that it exists at all:

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