sojournTime @sojournTime@social.cleverlibre.org

What is the most cited mathematical paper?

Sad to be missing #informs this year, but something came up…

A mural celebrating #SciHub on the campus of @unam_mx in #CDMX. Reportedly painted by students without permission. 😲 #StreetArt

Claudia Goldin wins Nobel economics prize for work on gender gap

Wonderful!

I would love to learn more about Claudia Goldin’s contributions than I can glean from the press. Anyone in the know and could point to a great high-level paper of hers I might read? While I’d love to read the 1990 book, that’s more than I have bandwidth for right now.

https://www.reuters.com/world/claudia-goldin-wins-2023-nobel-economics-prize-2023-10-09/

Apollonial Gasket warped by states of the Cellular Automaton running on it.

Full Musical Version: https://youtu.be/hPrNtMPuVUM

Shout out to my Patrons who keep me going!

#apollonialgasket #circlepacking #codeart #fractal #cellularautomata #mastoArt #mathArt

gyroid isocontours

When my daughter was 6yo, she figured out that thing where you sneakily stick a note on someone’s back.

But she didn’t know the notes should say things like “kick me.” Instead, she would put space facts on them. She was really into outer space at the time.

One time I felt something on my back, then heard her run off giggling. I reached around, peeled off the little post-it, and found this:

Wearing this shirt to the faculty retreat today to trigger my colleagues

In 2017, I managed to solve a problem from the “Lviv Scottish book” in https://mathoverflow.net/a/282290/766 . The problem had a prize of “butelka miodu pitnego" (a bottle of honey mead). Today, while I was in Warsaw, some representatives from Lviv, Ukraine came (by train, as the Ukraine airspace is obviously closed) I was very touched and honored to unexpectedly receive the prize in person.

In a freakish bit of irony, my sabbatical replacement is going to Burning Man.

Day two in #Algebra2 went well. Did the checkerboard problem (Counting the number of squares in an 8x8 checkerboard, look for patterns, extend to an nxn board). Yesterday we experienced how using tables to organize our thinking could be useful and illuminate unforseen patterns, so I was happy to see many groups using tables today. I was especially giddy when two groups saw they had different numbers in their tables, but they added up to the same total, and then proceeded to spend some time trying to understand eachother's approach. All in all, a good day.

#ThinkingClassroom #MTBoS #ClassroomMath

An illusion of predictability in scientific results: Even experts confuse inferential uncertainty and outcome variability

https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2302491120

Visualizing only inferential uncertainty can lead to significant overestimates of treatment effects, even among highly trained experts

Solution: when possible, plot individual data points alongside statistical estimates

#statistics #dataviz #statpubs

@standupmaths "Skills and qualifications: knows π to at least 3 significant figures (more in some even-numbered years)"