Potpourri (...such as it is)

A short potpourri from week #15 of the Trump Apocalypse:

1)  Yet another review of my favorite popular math book from last year, Cathy O’Neil’s “Weapons of Math Destruction”:

https://plus.maths.org/content/weapons-math-destruction

2)  Pat Ballew has amassed a lot of great historical material with his “On This Day In Math” blog and Twitter feed. I suggested earlier this week that with some organizing effort the material could probably make a great calendar or book for math fans. 

Any publishers interested ought to check with Pat:

http://pballew.blogspot.com

3)  Presh Talwalkar on Viviani’s Theorem, Sperner’s Lemma, and more:

https://mindyourdecisions.com/blog/2017/05/09/splitting-the-rent-fairly-with-triangles-ft-mathologer-and-pbs-infinite-series-game-theory-tuesdays/

4)  An ‘intrepid’ interview with Barry Mazur:

https://anthonybonato.com/2017/05/10/interview-with-a-mathematician-barry-mazur/

5)  Brian Hayes points out this mathematical approach to the question “What is life?”:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.03322

6)  Today I blurbed briefly about 3 recent books:

https://math-frolic.blogspot.com/2017/05/a-couple-of-books-i-wont-be-reading-and.html

...and just a couple of decades-old quotes to close out the week (...you know, for those too young to remember history, and thus subject to repeating it):

“Just remember that once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it is going to be very tough to get it back in.”  -- John Haldeman (1973)

"We have a cancer within, close to the presidency, that is growing. It is growing daily.”   -- John Dean (1973)