Here’s a post on an extremely interesting story at the intersection of law, statistics and professional ethics in several disciplines. Inter alia, the issue has been covered in some of the best scientific journals.
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The song of the day: “Finite Simple Group (of Order Two)”, by the Klein Four Group
Fantastic, simply fantastic! Maths, music (nod bad at all), fun and– the sine qua non— love, at work, together: I’ve just relived my entire college life :-). Never heard of the guys before, but they’ve surely got all my votes.
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an excellent (wide-audience targeted) article on the upside of income inequality, by Gary Becker and Kevin Murphy. Greg Mankiw also writes about it (and singles out exactly the fragment I wanted to single out).
On why you need Maths for Economics and in general
Some young but very ambitious students (yeah, yeah, some of you are reading this post on my blog right now :-)) have been asking me why would they need to know Maths if they want to become economists (in industry or academia) and what Maths courses are most suitable for them and how much Maths would they actually use in practice anyway…
These are very interesting and very pertinent questions and obviously they were asked and answered before.
→ Read more Scientific Breakthrough: Mapping E8
This definitely calls for celebration in the whole scientific community! Perseverance, a lot of patience, a team of 18 brilliant mathematicians and computer scientists, 64 Gb of RAM: the result is mapping E8, the largest among the exceptional simple Lie groups.
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