Welcome to the 54th Carnival of Mathematics, and Happy Fourth of July to our American readers! Indeed, the carnival should have been hosted yesterday, and I apologize for being a day late.
Trivia: Today, we have the 234th Independence Day celebrations in the US, and ours is the 54th carnival. 2+3+4 = 5+4, see? Boy, do I feel so clever!
Ok, let’s begin, now!
We start off with a post, submitted by Shai Deshe, that presents a collection of YouTube videos explaining different kinds of infinities in set theory, causality vs conditionality in probability and some topology. The videos are the kind of ones that “math people” could use to explain a few mathematical concepts to their friends, family members and colleagues who may not be enamored of math very much but may still possess a lingering interest in it.
Experimental philosophy, according to the Experimental Philosophy Society, “involves the collection of empirical data to shed light on philosophical issues“. As such, a careful quantitative analyses of results of experiments are used to shed light on many philosophical issues/debates. Anthony Chemero wrote a post titled, ‘What Situationist Experiments Show‘, that links to a paper with the same title that he coauthored with John Campbell and Sarah Meerschaert. In the paper, the authors, through quantitative analyses of actual experimental data, argue that virtue ethics has not lost to the siuationist side, whose critiques of virtue theory are far from convincing.
Next, I would like to bring the readers’ attention to two math blogs that came into existence somewhat recently and which I think have a lot of really good mathematical content. They are Annoying Precision and A Portion of the Book. In my opinion, their blog posts contain a wealth of mathematical knowledge, especially for undergraduates (and graduate students too!), who, if inclined toward problem-solving, will enjoy the posts even more. Go ahead and dive into them!
At Annoying Precision, a project aimed at the “Generally Interested Lay Audience” that Qiaochu Yuan started aims “to build up to a discussion of the Polya enumeration theorem without assuming any prerequisites other than a passing familiarity with group theory.” It begins with GILA I: Group Actions and Equivalence Relations, the last post of the series being GILA VI: The cycle index polynomials of the symmetric groups.
Usually, undergrads hardly think integrals have much to do with combinatorics. At A Portion of the Book, Masoud Zargar has a very nice post that deals with the intersection of Integrals, Combinatorics and Geometry.
Tom Escent submitted a link to an article titled, “Introduction to Nerds on Wall Street“, which actually provides a very small snapshot of the book named, Nerds on Wall Street: Math, Machines and Wired Markets whose author is David J. Leinweber. I haven’t read the book yet, but based on generally good reviews, it seems like it chronicles the contribution of Quant guys to Wall Street over the past several decades. Should be interesting to Math and CS majors, I think.
Let’s have a post on philosophy and logic, shall we? At Skeptic’s Play, there is a discussion on Gödel’s modal ontological argument regarding the possibility of existence of God. As someone who has just begun a self-study of modal logic, I will recommend Brian K. Chellas’ excellent introduction to the subject, titled Modal Logic: An Introduction.
Then, there is the Daily Integral, a blog dealing with solving elementary integrals and which I think may be particularly useful for high-school students.
Let me close this carnival by asking the reader, “What do you think is the world’s oldest mathematical artifact?” There are several candidates, and according to The Number Warrior, candidate #1 is The Lebombo Bone, found in the Lebombo Mountains of South Africa and Swaziland, that dates back to 35,000 BC!
That’s all for now! Thanks to everyone who made submissons.
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July 6, 2009 at 8:12 am
Qiaochu Yuan
I should mention that I’m not quite done with Polya theory; I have at least one other application I want to discuss involving the generalization where the set of colors is replaced by a multi-parameter generating function.
Masoud doesn’t seem to be very active anymore, which is unfortunate.
July 6, 2009 at 5:15 pm
Vishal Lama
Thank you for that update! I should mention that I was careful to not use the phrase “final post of the series…”, though on hindsight, “last post of the series…” may have easily conveyed the idea that the post was indeed the final one.
July 6, 2009 at 10:42 pm
Logic Nest · Carnival of Mathematics @ Todd and Vishal’s Blog
[…] have a good reason for it. The 54th edition was released yesterday on Todd and Vishal’s blog here, and there are some interesting posts. First, I enjoyed the post and the comments on the […]
July 7, 2009 at 1:26 pm
Américo Tavares
The “virtue ethics” topic attracted my attention which I knew nothing about. I have to read further on it.
I would like to read the David J. Leinweber’s book as well.
It was only recently I’ve seen the Annoying Precision blog, and here I saw the Daily Integral for the first time.
July 7, 2009 at 11:20 pm
Masoud Zargar
I suppose it would be fair to thank Vishal and Todd for linking that article on my blog. As Qiaochu Yuan mentioned, I have not been very active on my blog lately. Due to the election fraud in my country (Iran), I have not had much time to write. 😦
July 7, 2009 at 11:58 pm
Vishal Lama
Masoud,
You are welcome. Of course, your blog readers will miss reading your great posts. I wonder though if you would write something on the election fraud you just mentioned. Most non-Iranians don’t have much of a coherent idea on the current political crisis in your country. No doubt, the topic would be non-mathematical but very illuminating in my opinion.
Hope your family and you are safe and doing well.
July 8, 2009 at 3:11 pm
Calling All Math Bloggers « Let’s Play Math!
[…] I just noticed The 54th Carnival of Mathematics was posted on Sunday at Topological Musings. Check it […]
July 8, 2009 at 6:34 pm
watchmath
Hi,
Is this Math Carnival open to everybody who write math blog? If it is what should I do in order to participate?
Thanks
July 9, 2009 at 2:39 pm
Todd Trimble
watchmath, it’s fairly open. We are looking for interesting, non-cranky material, so we do want to take a look first before linking. Your own blog seems to have some pretty nice stuff on it; I just took a quick look. So please, by all means, send us a link of a post you’d like us to link to. Our email address is topologicalmusings[hat]gmail[doth]com, after the necessary corrections are made. Thanks!
July 11, 2009 at 2:23 pm
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July 15, 2009 at 4:05 am
watchmath
Thanks for the info Todd. Is there any deadline for the submission of post for the upcoming Carnival?
July 15, 2009 at 7:11 pm
Todd Trimble
watchmath, the carnival master-general seems to be Alon Levy, whose email seems to be publicly accessible as alon_levy 1 at yahoo dot com. I’m sure he could help you with details on where, when, deadlines, etc.
July 20, 2009 at 4:47 pm
ericwashere
Thanks for linking to my blog, Daily Integral!
July 21, 2009 at 3:17 pm
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July 24, 2009 at 4:06 pm
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[…] missed the Carnival of Mathematics #54 at Todd and Vishal’s Blog (Topological Musings), but there is a lot of good info there, […]
August 1, 2009 at 2:21 pm
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August 2, 2009 at 3:00 pm
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August 2, 2009 at 3:02 pm
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November 18, 2010 at 10:38 am
Sirdar Dizaye
Am currently examining Goedel’s Ontological Argument. Any references on secondary sources is greatly appreciated. BTW, Graeme Forbes’ introduction to (alethic) modal logic is pretty good too. Thanks!!
November 18, 2010 at 10:39 am
Sirdar Dizaye
I hope I got (spelling of) Forbes’ 1st name correct!
November 18, 2010 at 10:41 am
Sirdar Dizaye
Here:
The Metaphysics of Modality, Oxford University Press, Clarendon Library of Logic and Philosophy series, May 1985.
August 12, 2011 at 1:54 pm
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To
The Hon’ble Chief Justice,
The Supreme Court,
United States of America,
Washington, D.C.
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Sir,
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e) 3 25 000 people wounded
Dated on this day of 13th day of April, 2009.
Yours truly,
(M.S.MOHAMED ANSARI)
COPY TO
The Chief Justice, the International Court of Justice, The Hague, Netherlands.
The Secretary General, United Nations Organization
The Chief Justice, the Supreme Court, IRAQ.
His Excellency Mr.Barack Obama, the President of United States of America, White House, Washington D.C.
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