God Plays Dice
A random walk through mathematics -- mostly through the random part.
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12 January 2009
Sociology of mathematicians?
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Has anybody seriously looked at mathematicians from an anthropological or sociological perspective? I was talking to some sociologists last...
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16 May 2008
Correlation coefficients and the popularity gap
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The Popularity Gap (Sarah Kliff, Newsweek , May 15 issue). Apparently, the people who end up being successful later in life are the ones wh...
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16 September 2007
hard science, and calculating the area of a circle
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The Really Hard Science , by Michael Shermer, from the October 2007 issue of Scientific American. The author makes the claim that the tradi...
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