My book - among the 100 Best Number Theory Books of All Time

Sequential Experiments with Primes made it to the 100 Best Number Theory Books of All Time @ https://bookauthority.org/books/best-number-theory-books. At least, an undergraduate math professor has been there! Thank you! :-)

 

"not everything that counts can be counted..."

`Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.'  ~William Bruce Cameron... that's an appropriate motto for this most interesting opinion piece, indeed food for thought from The Conversation:  

Our obsession with metrics is corrupting science

The final paragraph poses a good question and points out to the emergence of an opposition to the "h-index" hysteria, built on the idea that content is more important than metrics. As it should be!

"Does the h-index indicate anything other than a high citation rate, whatever that may mean otherwise? Ironically, science and hypothesis testing is needed. For example: do researchers with high h-indices contribute anything of more significance than those with lower ones? Internationally, opposition has taken the form of the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA). Institutions are urged to acknowledge that the scientific content of a paper is more important than publication metrics or the identity of the journal in which it was published. Content rather than metrics is what ought to count."

 

 

"SEQUENTIAL EXPERIMENTS WITH PRIMES" - past its 4th anniversary

 

My book Sequential Experiments with Primes got past its 4th anniversary (it was released on July 3, 2017). This is a news story from the local (Ada OH) newspaper "Ada Icon" on 8/28/2017

Chalkboard picture - to remember

Local problem group (ONU-SOLVE) working on a problem proposed by M. Tetiva (problem 12126, American Mathematical Monthly). That was a very nice evening!

© Mihai Caragiu

 

Memories: math summer camps for the gifted (SAHI at Ohio Northern, 2015)

 

 

Beautiful minds: gifted students participating in the 2015 ONU Summer Academic Honors Institute - Cryptography Camp

© Mihai Caragiu

 

Om si leustean

 

© Mihai Caragiu

Ograda minunata

Un fragment din ograda noii mele case (curtea are 1 hectar si jumatate).

© Mihai Caragiu

 

Dusty in memoriam

 

One year since Dusty passed away!

Until we meet again, my dear friend

© Mihai Caragiu

 

Being a professor from the heart

Written and Performed By: Arthur Benjamin, Mike Orrison, Francis Su, and Heather Zinn-Brooks 

Edited By: Ariel Benjamin 

Harvey Mudd College 

Consultation

Photo © Mihai Caragiu

 

Stirring the pot

 

$29.00 - Tom Waits

From the 1978 Blue Valentine album - 

Don Shewey of Rolling Stone found that Blue Valentine "is as solid a record as Waits has made", and that its best songs "rank high among the sentimental sagas that contain Tom Waits' strongest writing."