Host of Quanta Magazine's The Joy of Why podcast and previously hosted The Joy of x podcast, based on his book of the same name.
Today, after telling my chaos class about the late Mitchell Feigenbaum, I stumbled across this affectionate tribute to him by @stephen_wolfram. It contains lots of wonderful (and often funny) inside stories about Mitchell's life and work. [link] cc @chaaosbook
An interesting new paper in @PNASNexus, "Complex Systems of Secrecy: The Offshore Networks of Oligarchs", uses data from leaked documents to examine the network structure of wealth managers and the oligarchs they serve. [link] Press:
The key is being open to learning, says @JonMalesic in this terrific essay. Hear, hear!
Thanks to @pbleic for alerting me to this beautiful article in @plusmathsorg about Riemann surfaces and “multi-valued” functions like the square root function sqrt(z) below. I’m going to ask my complex analysis students to read this article and play with the GeoGebra demos in it.