I highly recommend viewing the 45 minute documentary produced in 1996 about the process by which Andrew Wiles proved Fermat’s Last Theorem; Professor Wiles’ enthusiasm for his research and his persistance in pursuing this research achievement is inspiring:
Here’s a list of articles that I have been reading lately: Biden’s Prediction: Inside Information or Pure Bluster? – NYTimes.com freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com Stephen Dubner provides the latest from the prediction markets on the midterm elections – 75% likelihood of a Republican House, while the Dems will most likely retain Senate control (however, with a substantially diminished …
Here’s a list of articles that I have been reading lately: How Companies Track Corporate Reputation – The Numbers Guy – WSJ blogs.wsj.com “How polling firms and other companies track corporate reputation, from monitoring social networks to surveying thousands of people daily.” Medicare Actuary Questions Obamacare Savings | Foxnews.com politics.blogs.foxnews.com “The actuaries at Medicare are …
Here’s a list of articles that I have been reading lately: Obama Declares Auto Bailout a Success – WSJ.com online.wsj.com “The president said last year’s $60 billion rescue of GM and Chrysler saved an estimated one million jobs… Alan Blinder of Princeton University and Mark Zandi of Moody’s, estimated that the rescue of GM during …
Here’s a list of articles that I have been reading lately: David Cameron: A Staunch and Self-Confident Ally – WSJ.com online.wsj.com “British Prime Minister David Cameron writes in The Wall Street Journal that the U.S. and Britain have a clear common agenda: succeeding in Afghanistan, securing economic growth and fighting protectionism.” You Don’t Have to …
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty…capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show. -Bertrand Russell
Very interesting 17 minutes video featuring the father of fractal geometry! Here’s the synopsis of his talk: “… mathematics legend Benoit Mandelbrot develops a theme … — the extreme complexity of roughness, and the way that fractal math can find order within patterns that seem unknowably complicated.”
Hat tip to my former student, Jason Gould, for pointing this video out on his blog, aka J.A. Gould World.
Here’s a list of articles that I have been reading today (organized by topic): Finance and the Financial Crisis Efficient Market Theory and the Crisis, by Jeremy Siegel “Neither the rating agencies’ mistakes nor the overleveraging by financial firms was the fault of an academic hypothesis.” Foreign Policy The Tenacity Question, by David Brooks “Military …
