The Math Potpourri Before the Storm

Having pressed through week 32 of Trumpian antics, the math bits continue coming:

1)  A Gödelian primer:

https://infinityplusonemath.wordpress.com/2017/09/04/how-godel-proved-maths-inherent-limitations/

2)  Evelyn Lamb on “Public Domain Math”:

http://blogs.ams.org/blogonmathblogs/2017/09/06/public-domain-math/

3)  Popularity of baby names:

http://mathscinotes.com/2017/09/baby-name-frequency-ranking-using-power-query/

4)  Only a little math amongst a slew of cognitive topics brought together in this long Scott Alexander book review of “Surfing Uncertainty”:

http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/09/05/book-review-surfing-uncertainty/

5)  Peter Cameron on p-values and Bayes:

https://cameroncounts.wordpress.com/2017/09/06/p-values/

6)  Ben Orlin’s great tribute to his own colleagues (…while also making an important point about math education):

https://mathwithbaddrawings.com/2017/09/06/there-is-no-perfect-teacher-just-a-bunch-of-great-ones/

7)  H/T to Steve Strogatz for citing this instructive old algebraic Quora post:
https://www.quora.com/How-do-you-find-the-positive-integer-solutions-to-frac-x-y%2Bz-%2B-frac-y-z%2Bx-%2B-frac-z-x%2By-4/answer/Alon-Amit?share=1

8)  For those who enjoy such things John Urschel is doing a Reddit "Ask Me Anything" edition TODAY at 2pm EDT.

Potpourri BONUS! (extra NON-mathematical links of interest): 

1)  By now most of you have probably seen the letter left by President Obama for the incoming president before Donny Trump turned the Oval Office into a tawdry caricature of what it once was:

http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/03/politics/obama-trump-letter-inauguration-day/index.html

2)  For pickleball fans, a compilation of some great rallies:

[...And lastly, good luck to all of you in Irma's path in the days immediately ahead.]