Statistical Inference A Work in Progress (~2019)

Statistical Inference A Work in Progress (~2019)
Ronald Christensen
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of New Mexico
https://stat.unm.edu/~fletcher/INFER.pdf

Book: The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secret

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https://www.amazon.com/Simpsons-Their-Mathematical-Secrets/dp/1620402785

Simon Singh, author of the bestsellers Fermat's Enigma, The Code Book, and Big Bang, offers fascinating new insights into the celebrated television series The Simpsons: That the show drip-feeds morsels of number theory into the minds of its viewers―indeed, that there are so many mathematical references in the show, and in its sister program, Futurama, that they could form the basis of an entire university course.

Recounting memorable episodes from "Bart the Genius" to "Homer3," Singh brings alive intriguing and meaningful mathematical concepts―ranging from the mathematics of pi and the paradox of infinity to the origin of numbers and the most profound outstanding problems that haunt today's generation of mathematicians. In the process, he illuminates key moments in the history of mathematics, and introduces us to The Simpsons' brilliant writing team―the likes of David X. Cohen, Al Jean, Jeff Westbrook, and Stewart Burns―all of whom have various advanced degrees in mathematics, physics, and other sciences.

Based on interviews with the writers of The Simpsons and replete with images from the shows, facsimiles of scripts, paintings and drawings, and other imagery, The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets will give anyone who reads it an entirely new insight into the most successful show in television history.

Kasper Müller

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kasper-m%C3%BCller-96ba95169/

https://kaspermuller.medium.com/

• Editor, Cantor's Paradise 
• Senior Consultant, Data and Analytics, FS, Technology Consulting, EY
  

The Beauty and Power of Discrete Calculus
https://www.cantorsparadise.com/the-beauty-and-power-of-discrete-calculus-87931daa074

 

nⁿ+(n+1)ⁿ Primes

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A6968197862727790593/

"The only known primes of shape nⁿ+(n+1)ⁿ are 3, 13 and 881."

Google Cloud Calculates Pi To 100 Trillion Digits

Google Cloud Calculates Pi To 100 Trillion Digits

• https://science.slashdot.org/story/22/06/09/0128234/google-cloud-calculates-pi-to-100-trillion-digits
• https://www.engadget.com/google-cloud-pi-100-trillion-digits-174908346.html
• https://blog.google/products/google-cloud/new-digit-pi-2022/

"Google Cloud developer advocate Emma Haruka Iwao and her colleagues say they've calculated Pi to 100 trillion digital decimal places." 

"Iwao and her team previously set the record in 2019 when they carried out a calculation to an accuracy of 31.4 trillion digits." 

"In 2019, the calculation (which figured out a third as many digits as the most recent attempt) took 121 days. This time around, the calculation ran for 157 days, 23 hours, 31 minutes and 7.651 seconds, meaning the computers were running more than twice as quickly despite Iwao using "the same tools and techniques." Around 82,000 terabytes of data were processed overall. Iwao also notes that reading all 100 trillion digits out loud at a rate of one per second would take more than 3.1 million years. And in case you're wondering, the 100-trillionth decimal place of Pi is 0."

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