Three Highly Entertaining Math Books

Innumeracy
Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences
By John Allen Paulos


Impossible?
Surprising Solutions to Counterintuitive Conundrums
By Julian Havil


The JOY of Mathematics
Marvels, Novelties, and Neglected Gems That Are Rarely Taught in Math Class
By Alfred S. Posamentier, et al

 

International Prize in Statistics - awarded to Nan Laird Professor of Biostatistics (Emerita) at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

International Prize in Statistics( Some people call it Nobel prize of Statistics) has been awarded to US biostatistician Nan Laird Professor of Biostatistics (Emerita) at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6854754057886806016/

With this ,Nan Laird became First Woman To Receive the International Prize in Statistics

She has been awarded by this prize because of her groundbreaking work that made possible the analysis of complex longitudinal data.

Longitudinal data stands for data that is collected sequentially from the same respondents over time (For example : Data collected by observing symptoms of a group of patients for long time period)

Her work , which has come up in 1982, has been a great help to solving problem with random effect in longitudinal data coming from various fields such as Medical, Clinical Trials, Psychology ,Oncology etc.

Conversations with Jim Ware and Nan Laird - Longitudinal Studies


 

Mathematical Ambiguity

This blog post is a placeholder for organizing links to interesting resources related to mathematical ambiguity discussions:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_operations 
• https://dlmf.nist.gov/
  
• https://people.math.harvard.edu/~knill/pedagogy/ambiguity/
• https://people.math.harvard.edu/~knill/pedagogy/ambiguity/ambiguity.pdf
  
• https://scienceblogs.com/evolutionblog/2013/03/15/the-horror-of-pemdas
  
• https://math.berkeley.edu/~gbergman/misc/numbers/ord_ops.html 
  

Pi calculated to 62.8 trillion decimal places

 Competence Centre for Data Analysis, Visualisation and Simulation (DAViS)

https://www.fhgr.ch/en/specialist-areas/applied-future-technologies/davis-centre/pi-challenge/#c16197

• "The challenge for this record attempt is taken up by project leader Thomas Keller and by the head of DAViS, Prof. Dr Heiko Rölke."
• "DAViS as part of the University of Applied Sciences of the Grisons is consolidating expertise in the area of high-performance computing (HPC) and HPC infrastructure for a mandate of the canton of Grisons."
•  2021-08-14: "This Saturday morning at 9:30 am, our High Performance Computer successfully completed its calculation to 62'831'853'071'750 decimal places, hence an additional 12.8 trillion decimal digits of Pi have been discovered."

Babylonians Used Applied Geometry 1,000 Years Before Pythagoras

 

• https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ancient-tablet-shows-babylonians-used-pythagorean-geometry-1000-years-pythagoras-180978376/
• https://www.sciencealert.com/this-3-700-year-old-tablet-shows-the-oldest-known-example-of-applied-geometry 
  

How Many Numbers Exist? Infinity Proof Moves Math Closer to an Answer.

•  How Many Numbers Exist? Infinity Proof Moves Math Closer to an Answer.
• https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-many-numbers-exist-infinity-proof-moves-math-closer-to-an-answer-20210715/
• Martin’s Maximum++ implies Woodin’s axiom (∗) 
• https://annals.math.princeton.edu/2021/193-3/p03 
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuum_hypothesis
  

The Mathematics Handbook, compiled by Alexander Spartalis

"The Mathematics Handbook", v4.1, June 2nd, 2019. 

(formerly known as the "All In One Mathematics Cheat Sheet")

Alexander's web site for the book is here:  

• http://mathscheats.weebly.com/ 

You can find the full PDF here

• https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MM2Hu5qlptkg8dNLM9QibeXHErLz73Qy/view
• Now, 640 pages