{"id":8416,"date":"2016-04-13T18:45:59","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T22:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=8416"},"modified":"2016-04-15T09:31:13","modified_gmt":"2016-04-15T13:31:13","slug":"various-and-sundry-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=8416","title":{"rendered":"Various and Sundry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some quick links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Via my Columbia colleague at<a href=\"https:\/\/mathematicswithoutapologies.wordpress.com\/2016\/04\/12\/mathematics-morality-and-crossing-the-finish-line\/\"> Mathematics Without Apologies<\/a>, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ng1W2KUHI2s\">documentary about Perelman<\/a> that I was unaware of.<\/li>\n<li>I learned something yesterday about another math department colleague, Mikhail Khovanov: he has games called <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/ringsanity\/id1076710580?mt=8\">Ringsanity<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/ringiana\/id1071479389?mt=8\">Ringiana<\/a> available as apps.<\/li>\n<li>Took a quick look at a Stephon Alexander&#8217;s new book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Jazz-Physics-Structure-Universe\/dp\/0465034993\">The Jazz of Physics<\/a>, which is now in bookstores.  While I enjoyed reading some of his account of his career in theoretical physics, I&#8217;m afraid that his two main topics, jazz and models of the big bang, both are things that pretty much leave me cold. For those with more interest in either topic, you probably should take a closer look.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m sorry to see that there&#8217;s some sort of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lagazettedemontpellier.fr\/dossiers-gazette\/article-35688\/alexandre-grothendieck-bagarre-autour-l%E2%80%99heritage-du-genie-maths\">fight developing over Grothendieck&#8217;s papers<\/a>. A shame.<\/li>\n<li>Previous attempts to figure out what &#8220;ER=EPR&#8221; is supposed to mean have left me baffled.   Trying to read Susskind&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1604.02589\">write up of his IAS lectures on the topic<\/a> hasn&#8217;t helped, I&#8217;m afraid.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nUpdate<\/strong>: Mikhail Khovanov tells me that Ringiana for Android can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.strongcoupling.vanbaalon.cantor&#038;hl=en\">here<\/a>.  It was developed jointly with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kcl.ac.uk\/nms\/depts\/mathematics\/people\/atoz\/gromovn.aspx\">Nikolay Gromov<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He also comments that &#8220;Thompson groups V and T act on the states of Ringiana and Ringsanity, correspondingly. These groups were the first two infinite, finitely-presented, simple groups discovered by mathematicians.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some quick links: Via my Columbia colleague at Mathematics Without Apologies, a documentary about Perelman that I was unaware of. I learned something yesterday about another math department colleague, Mikhail Khovanov: he has games called Ringsanity and Ringiana available as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=8416\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8416"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8422,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8416\/revisions\/8422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}