Book review: Jason Wilkes’ Burn Math Class: And Reinvent Mathematics for Yourself is a informal approach to learning math. (Scientific American)

Quote of the Day

"Just because we now know that something happened doesn’t imply that we could have known it was going to happen at the time, even in principle, because at the time, it wasn’t necessarily going to happen at all."

(Duncan J. Watts)

Chart of the Day

America loves cheese.

(bloomberg.com)